Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Women in Culture and Society
ISBN-10
0226484548
ISBN-13
9780226484549
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 15th, 1988
Print length
327 Pages
Weight
510 grams
Dimensions
2.30 x 1.50 x 0.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: poetry & poetsGender studies: women
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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.
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