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Her choices of texts are exciting, and readers will relish discovering works not often analyzed....Recommended...for comprehensive collections serving advanced scholars.Choice
Book Description
A full-length exploration of the relation between poetics and queer theory, Queer Poetics presents a theoretical framework that can illuminate not only the ways we read the specific poetic innovations of the six major writers in this study, but also the ways we read literary modernism itself, by placing both in a different social and epistemological context--that of "queer" existence.
About the Author
MARY E. GALVIN has been studying and teaching literature, writing, and women's studies at the State University of New York, Albany, for the past nine years.
Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers FROM THE PUBLISHER
A full-length exploration of the relation between poetics and queer theory, Queer Poetics presents a theoretical framework that can illuminate not only the ways we read the specific poetic innovations of the six major writers in this study, but also the ways we read literary modernism itself, by placing both in a different social and epistemological context--that of "queer" existence.
SYNOPSIS
A critical look at the intersections between the development of "queer" consciousness and the poetic experimentations of Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
After explaining Lesbian Theory in poetry, Galvin (literature, writing, and women's studies, State U. of New York-Albany) looks at Emily Dickinson and reappropriating language and identity, Amy Lowell and the erotics of particularity, Gertrude Stein and the readers role in creating experience, Mina Loy and the poetics of love, Djuna Barnes' use of form and the liminal space of gender, and H.D. and the palimpsest of sexual identity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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