On Burning Ground

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-472-07056-5
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 133 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Poets on Poetry

Sandra Gilbert is a highly esteemed literary critic and poet, best known for her feminist literary collaborations with Susan Gubar, with whom she coauthored ""The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination"".Author of seven collections of poetry and a highly regarded memoir about the death of her husband, Gilbert has also been a recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEH, and Soros Foundation fellowships.The essays assembled in ""On Burning Ground"" display Gilbert's astonishing range and explore poetics, personal identity, feminism, and modern and contemporary literature. Yet throughout, each piece is united by Gilbert's wit, insight, and intelligence.Among the pieces gathered here are essays on D. H. Lawrence, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and Claire Malroux, as well as reviews and previously unpublished articles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilbert, Sandra

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Gilbert is Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at the University of California, Davis. She has collaborated with Susan Gubar on the now-canonical feminist study The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination and the three-volume No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the 20th Century. Gilbert is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems 1969-1999 and, most recently, Belongings. She lives in Berkeley, California.