We Who Love to Be Astonished - Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics

This first critical volume devoted to the full range of women's postmodern works includes some of the most respected writers and critics in the contemporary avant-garde.
"We Who Love to Be Astonished" collects a powerful group of previously unpublished essays to fill a gap in the critical evaluation of women's contributions to postmodern experimental writing.

About the author

Laura Hinton is Assistant Professor of English at the City College of New York and author of The Perverse Route of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from "Clarissa" to "Rescue 911."

Cynthia Hogue is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University and author of Scheming Women: Poetry, Privilege, and the Politics of Subjectivity.

Summary

A collection of previously unpublished essays devoted to the full range of women's postmodern experimental writing. Discussions include analyses of the work of Kathleen Fraser, Harryette Mullen and Kathy Acker, among others.

Product details

• Authors: L. Hinton, Laura (EDT)/ Hogue Hinton
• Assisted by: Laura Hinton (Editor), Cynthia Hogue (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2001
• EAN: 9780817310950
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1095-0
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies