The American Love Lyric After Auschwitz and Hiroshima

ISBN-13: 9781349632053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 253 str.

Barbara L. Estrin; B. Estrin

Opis

Citing the massive horrors of the Nazi death camps and the domestic violence behind a woman's suicide, Adrienne Rich challenges a fellow poet: 'would it relieve you to decide/Poetry doesn't make this happen?' In this provocative reassessment of the modern American love lyric, Barbara L.

Recenzje

'Estrin's text is both rigorous and readable...Highly recommended.' - E.R Baer, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction: From Bird Song to Atom Bomb Theorizing the Lyric 'Form Gulping After Formlessness': Petrarch's Resistant Lauras in Stevens' 'Auroras of Autumn' 'The Intricate Evasions of As': Stevens' 'An Ordinary Evening in New Haven' 'Infinite Mischief': Robert Lowell's Fiction of Desire in The Dolphin 'Solid with Yearning': Lowelling and Laurelling in Day by Day Day Re-Versing the Past: Adrienne Rich's Outrage against Order 'At Long Last First': Adrienne Rich's Dark Fields and Samuel Beckett's Colorless Cliff After-Words

O autorze

BARBARA L. ESTRIN is Professor of English and Department Chair at Stonehill College. Author of The Raven and the Lark: Lost Children in English Renaissance Literature (Bucknell, 85) and Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell (Duke, 94), she has also published numerous articles on Renaissance and Modern topics.