Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and TheoryUniversity of Michigan Press, 1994 - 410 pages Explores the role of gender in poetic production, the tensions between poetry and contemporary literary theory, and the fluid boundaries between theoretical and literary writing. |
Contents
Soundings in Poetry and Theory | 1 |
Narrative and Lyric in Contemporary Theory and Womens Long Poems | 15 |
Theresa Hak Kyung Chas DICTEE | 43 |
Some Modern Poets and Some Gender Ideologies of Lyric | 69 |
Lucille Clifton and Dolores Kendrick | 96 |
Diving into the Wreck of Ethics with Rich and Irigaray | 117 |
Emily Dickinson and Metaphor | 139 |
Knowing All the Way Down to Fire | 163 |
The Courtships of Elizabeth Barrett and Queen Victoria | 237 |
The Politics of Poetic Form in Marilyn Hackers Love Death and the Changing of the Seasons | 260 |
Dis Place The Space Between | 287 |
The Erogenous Cusp or Intersections of Science and Gender in Alice Fultons Poetry | 317 |
RETHINKINGLITERARYFEMINISM three essays onto shaky grounds | 344 |
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Contributors | 403 |
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Gender and the Corrido Tradition in Two Contemporary Chicano Poems | 184 |
The Feminist Poetics of Aemilia Lanyers Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum | 208 |
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Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory Lynn Keller,Cristanne Miller No preview available - 1994 |
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