Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition

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 of reading poems and poetic tradition.

About the author

Lawrence Lipking, the Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University, is an editor of the "Norton Anthology of English Literature "and author of" The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England "and "The Life of the Poet," which is published by the University of Chicago Press.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Lipking, Lawrence (Northwestern University) Lipking, Lawrence I. Lipking, Lipking Lawrence, Catherine R. Stimpson
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1988
• EAN: 9780226484549
• ISBN: 978-0-226-48454-9
• No. of pages: 327
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Women in Culture & Society (Pa; Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture and Society; Women in Culture & Society Series WCS (CHUP); Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: poetry and poets