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Title Gendered Modernisms : American Women Poets and Their Readers / Thomas Travisano, Margaret Dickie
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- 1. Recovering the Repression in Stein's Erotic Poetry -- 2. History as Conjugation: Stein's Stanzas in Meditation and the Literary History of the Modernist Long Poem -- Part II. H.D. (1886-1961) -- 3. H.D., Modernism, and the Transgressive Sexualities of Decadent-Romantic Platonism -- 4. Pornopoeia, the Modernist Canon, and the Cultural Capital of Sexual Literacy: The Case of H.D. -- Part III. Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- 5. "So As to Be One Having Some Way of Being One Having Some Way of Working": Marianne Moore and Literary Tradition -- 6. "The Frigate Pelican" 's Progress: Marianne Moore's Multiple Versions and Modernist Practice -- Part IV. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- 7. Jouissance and the Sentimental Daughter: Edna St. Vincent Millay -- 8. Antimodern, Modern, and Postmodern Millay: Contexts of Revaluation -- Part V. Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) -- 9. Laura (Riding) Jackson's "Really New" Poem -- Part VI. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- 10. The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon -- Part VII. Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) -- 11. Muriel Rukeyser and Her Literary Critics -- 12. "The Buried Life and the Body of Waking": Muriel Rukeyser and the Politics of Literary History -- Part VIII. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ) -- 13. Whose Canon? Gwendolyn Brooks: Founder at the Center of the "Margins" -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary Thirteen original essays on Gertrude Stein, H.D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrate how these women expand the social, textual, and political boundaries of modernism. The collection places these poets in the context of their times, examining the conditions that helped shape their vivid and diverse poetic careers and reconsidering some of the assumptions that have led to their exclusion from the main narratives of modernist poetry. Ultimately, the aim is to enlarge the literary history of the movement--for gendered, modernism extends backward to the first years of the century, and forward to the beginnings of postmodernism in the 1960s
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- United States
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Authors and readers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Canon (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American poetry
American poetry -- Women authors
Authors and readers
Books and reading
Canon (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Women and literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Dickie, Margaret
Travisano, Thomas
ISBN 9781512801668
1512801666