Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite

This book reads Frost's poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by feminist analysis.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'The Serpent's Tail'; 1. Irony: 'Teiresia's Gaze'; 2. Irony II: 'This Is Not a Pipe'; 3. Women: 'Dryads, Witches, and Hill Wives'; 4. Eros: 'The Mischief Maker'; 5. Prosody: 'White Noise'; 6. Lyricism: 'At the Back of the North Wind'; Conclusion: 'Out Far and in Deep'; Notes; Index.

Summary

Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost's poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by feminist analysis, and it evaluates Frost's persistent feminising of poetic language in ways that he typically dramatises as both erotic and humiliating. The study unites biography, psychology and feminism in creating an adept and imaginative instrument of interpretation.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Kearns
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.2015
• EAN: 9780521444859
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44485-9
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 555 g
• Series: Econometric Society Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies