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The American Love Lyric After Auschwitz and Hiroshima
Barbara L. Estrin
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Description for The American Love Lyric After Auschwitz and Hiroshima
Hardcover. Through readings of individual poems (and drawing upon the gender and genre theories of Jean Francois Lyotard, Judith Butler, Melanie Klien, and Jacques Lacan), Estrin counters presuppositions that the lyric remains sequestered in a political isolation, and offers a new critique of American poetry. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
Citing the massive horrors of the Nazi death camps and the domestic violence behind a woman's suicide, Adrienne Rich challenges a fellow poet: 'would it relieve you to decide/Poetry doesn't make this happen?' In this provocative reassessment of the modern American love lyric, Barbara L. Estrin chronicles the return of three major American poets (Wallace Stevens in the late forties and fifties, Robert Lowell in the Seventies, and Adrienne Rich in the nineties) to the mid-century catastrophes that gave rise to such thorny questions. Through close readings of individual poems (and drawing upon the gender and genre theories of Jean ... Read more
Citing the massive horrors of the Nazi death camps and the domestic violence behind a woman's suicide, Adrienne Rich challenges a fellow poet: 'would it relieve you to decide/Poetry doesn't make this happen?' In this provocative reassessment of the modern American love lyric, Barbara L. Estrin chronicles the return of three major American poets (Wallace Stevens in the late forties and fifties, Robert Lowell in the Seventies, and Adrienne Rich in the nineties) to the mid-century catastrophes that gave rise to such thorny questions. Through close readings of individual poems (and drawing upon the gender and genre theories of Jean ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
253
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312238650
SKU
V9780312238650
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About Barbara L. Estrin
BARBARA L. ESTRIN is Professor of English and Department Chair at Stonehill College. Author of The Raven and the Lark: Lost Children in English Renaissance Literature (Bucknell, 85) and Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell (Duke, 94), she has also published numerous articles on Renaissance and Modern topics.
Reviews for The American Love Lyric After Auschwitz and Hiroshima
'Estrin's text is both rigorous and readable...Highly recommended.' - E.R Baer, Choice