| Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition Contributor(s): Lipking, Lawrence (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226484548 ISBN-13: 9780226484549 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $43.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1988 Annotation: At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function--"in" poems and "for" writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 809.193 |
| LCCN: 87026963 |
| Series: Women in Culture & Society (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.06" W x 9.02" (1.03 lbs) 327 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function--in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition. |