Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry
- ISBN-10
- 0801482941
- ISBN-13
- 9780801482946
- Category
- Feminist literary criticism
- Pages
- 396
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Authors
- Yopie Prins, Maeera Shreiber
Description
Contributors here suggest new ways of thinking and writing about poetry in light of contemporary questions about history and identity. The book covers a range of time, geography, and genre, considering poets from antiquity to the present and drawing on a variety of critical approaches--particularly the transformation of classical lyric through the figure of Sappho and the use of biblical material in women's verse. 4 illustrations. .
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- 2018-10-18
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