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Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition
Lawrence Lipking
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Description for Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition
Paperback. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways ... Read more
At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Women in Culture and Society Series
Number of Pages
327
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226484549
SKU
V9780226484549
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