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This book pushes beyond modern/postmodern dichotomies to show how Robert Bly and Adrienne Rich, two of America’s most prominent poets, engage in a process that is both dialectic and holotropic as they continually create—through doubling—fuller and more fluid self-identity. Ultimately, their use of alter-selves to deepen their subjectivity and transform otherness expands their voice and vision, culminating late in their careers in a polyphony of self. Bridging literary scholarship and writing pedagogy, this book concludes by illustrating how the two poets’ writing practices offer invigorating models and departure points for writing students in contemporary literature and composition classrooms.
Rhetoric of Self in Robert Bly and Adrienne Rich: Doubling and the Holotropic Urge FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book pushes beyond modern/postmodern dichotomies to show how Robert Bly and Adrienne Rich, two of America's most prominent poets, engage in a process that is both dialectic and holotropic as they continually create - through doubling - fuller and more fluid self-identity. Ultimately, their use of alter-selves to deepen their subjectivity and transform otherness expands their voice and vision, culminating late in their careers in a polyphony of self. Bridging literary scholarship and writing pedagogy, this book concludes by illustrating how the two poets' writing practices offer invigorating models and departure points for writing students in contemporary literature and composition classrooms.
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The two modern American poets, says Wadden (English, International Christian U., Tokyo) often split themselves in order to explore fluid and fragmentary self-identity. He points out that the doubles can be husband and wife, twins, siblings, shadows, half-born sister, and bi-partite beasts and angels. One can search for, rescue, encounter, rescue, rail against, or lament the other. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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