The Transmutation of Love and Avant-garde Poetics

Zusammenfassung Offers a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Jeanne Heuving claims that a key achievement of poetry by Ezra Pound! H.D.! Robert Duncan! and others lies significantly in their engagement with the synergistic relations between being in love and writing love.

About the author

Jeanne Heuving is a professor of English at the University of Washington Bothell and a graduate faculty member at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore as well as two collections of poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Jeanne Heuving
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780817358433
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5843-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies