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11%OFFAdalaide Kirby Morris - How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics - 9780252075919 - V9780252075919
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How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics

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Description for How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics paperback. The writing of HD is so linguistically rich and multilayered in structure that it has had almost as many interpretations as it has interpreters, from Freudians to feminists, from classicists to post-modernists. This book examines the "ongoingness" of HD's writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
The writing of H.D. is so linguistically rich and multilayered in structure that it has had almost as many interpretations as it has interpreters, from Freudians to feminists, from classicists to postmodernists. In How to Live/What to Do, however, Adalaide Morris removes the work of this iconic poet, dramatist, and novelist from compartments into which it has historically been placed. As she examines the "ongoingness" of H.D.'s writing, Morris makes an eloquent and compelling case for a consideration of poems--all poems--as forms of cultural mediation, instructive historical documents that engage the reader in wide-ranging contemporary debates and use their acoustical ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252075919
SKU
V9780252075919
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About Adalaide Kirby Morris
Adalaide Morris is John C. Gerber Professor of English at the University of Iowa and, most recently, the coeditor of New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories.

Reviews for How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics
"Simply superb. Morris's style is almost as great a pleasure as the impact of her ideas. It is amazing how much she can bring into imaginative and intellectual play, holding and complicating one layer of thought with another, and building to a remarkable sense of intellectual density and expansiveness."
Eileen Gregory, author of H.D. and Hellinism: Classic Lines

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