Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition Paperback / softback
by Lawrence (Northwestern University) Lipking
Part of the Women in Culture & Society Series WCS series
Paperback / softback
- Information
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.
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:327 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:15/09/1988
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226484549
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:327 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:15/09/1988
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226484549
