Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women's Poetry

This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being public in contemporary U.S culture.

List of contents

Becoming Public Paper Money and Tender Acts: Feminism and Democracy The Poetics of Privacy: Writing the Lyric Self Against the Outside: The Publics of Language Poetry Go Grrrl: Democracy and Counter Culture Romantic Materialism and Emerging Poets

About the author

NICKY MARSH works in English at the University of Southampton and is the Director of Southampton's Centre for Contemporary Writing, UK.

Summary

This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being public in contemporary U.S culture.

Additional text

'This book offers a set of ingenious readings of an unusual grouping of women poets, most of whom have been insufficiently studied and are now set in juxtaposition with each other in highly productive and illuminating ways. Comparison of Hejinian and Scalapino along the axis of public/private and spatiality/personhood, which underlies debates about citizenship is a juxtaposition that has an opportunity to become a foundational reading in secondary literature on women language poets. The careful readings of Spahr and Jarnot were quite moving and insightful. A strong and welcome contribution to the field.' - Maria Damon, University of Minnesota

Report

'This book offers a set of ingenious readings of an unusual grouping of women poets, most of whom have been insufficiently studied and are now set in juxtaposition with each other in highly productive and illuminating ways. Comparison of Hejinian and Scalapino along the axis of public/private and spatiality/personhood, which underlies debates about citizenship is a juxtaposition that has an opportunity to become a foundational reading in secondary literature on women language poets. The careful readings of Spahr and Jarnot were quite moving and insightful. A strong and welcome contribution to the field.' - Maria Damon, University of Minnesota

Product details

• Authors: N Marsh, N. Marsh
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9781349369683
• ISBN: 978-1-349-36968-3
• No. of pages: 225
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 217 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 302 g
• Illustrations: X, 225 p.
• Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century; American Literature Readings i; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Poetry, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Regional Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Culture—Study and teaching, Poetry and Poetics, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature, culture;democracy;lyric;poetics;poetry;Romanticism;women