Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women's Language-Oriented WritingSUNY Press, 2000 M02 3 - 222 pages Poetic Epistemologies explores the political and epistemological implications of women's language-oriented writing in the United States, arguing that, in its investigation of knowledge, language, and gender, this writing (re)unites art with philosophy, and both with social critique. Featuring eight contemporary and four earlier-twentieth-century poets--including Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Leslie Scalapino, Mina Loy, and Gertrude Stein--Simpson emphasizes each writer's unique contribution to the emerging tradition of feminist epistemological poetry. Drawing upon original interviews, as well as poststructuralist and feminist theory, Poetic Epistemologies offers an informed account of one of the most vital recent developments in contemporary American poetry. |
Contents
LanguageOriented Feminist Epistemology and the Case of Lyn Hejinian | 1 |
LanguageOriented Feminist Epistemology | 7 |
Lyn Hejinians Faustienne Poetics | 11 |
Come words away Modernist Womens Invitations to Innovation | 31 |
Laura Ridings Lifelong Project with Language | 34 |
Inside Language as Language with Gertrude Stein | 40 |
Mina Loys Deconstruction of Femininity | 49 |
Realism and Indeterminacy for HD | 59 |
Leslie Scalapino | 123 |
Meimei Berssenbrugge | 134 |
Carla Harryman | 145 |
Cries open to the words inside them Textual Truth and Historical Materialism in the Poetry of Susan Howe | 163 |
Recovering the Feminine | 168 |
Intertextuality and the Material Word | 180 |
The Visible surface of Discourse | 187 |
A Poetics of Encounter | 193 |
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