Poetics of the Body

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Chin, and Marilyn Hacker
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-38307-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 179 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Poetics of the Body examines representations of the body in the work of four important twentieth-century poets: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Chin, and Marilyn Hacker. Drawing on both past and present discussions regarding the place of the body in relation to Western philosophy, gender, sexuality, desire, creative production, and narrative, this study reveals how the poetic bodies in the poetry of these women negotiate the intersecting ideologies that attempt to regulate the body, its characteristics, and its behaviors. Ultimately, this dynamic book considers what it means to possess a body.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cucinella, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Theorizing the Body Textual and Corporeal Convergence: Edna St. Vincent Millay 'Dress Up! Dress Up and Dance at Carnival': Elizabeth Bishop's Poetic Bodies Writing the Body Palimpsest: Marilyn Chin 'Persistently on paper we exist': Stories and Desire on and through the Body: Marilyn Hacker Interview with Marilyn Chin Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

CATHERINE CUCINELLA is Lecturer in the Department of Literature and Writing and the Women's Studies Program at California State University, USA.