Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Change
The volume covers the full progression of her poetry from the beginning through her most recent work. It clarifies her entire poetic output and illuminates her concepts of nation, the female body, power, and women's sexuality. In doing so, it draws on a vast body of literary, theoretical, and cultural scholarship. While the book offers a thorough study of Rich and her works, it also examines the critical reaction that her controversial writings have engendered. |
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Instead she says she has tried to hear the country's public voice and to record in poetry and prose what is real in our culture and politics . The poetry attempts to survey our public space . Rich is a poet whose work reflects the ...
Instead she says she has tried to hear the country's public voice and to record in poetry and prose what is real in our culture and politics . The poetry attempts to survey our public space . Rich is a poet whose work reflects the ...
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I have pulled together the best literary , theoretical , and cultural scholarship on her work , reconciling the best criticism with my own insights into the poetry . This book explores the ways she integrates women poets ' call for ...
I have pulled together the best literary , theoretical , and cultural scholarship on her work , reconciling the best criticism with my own insights into the poetry . This book explores the ways she integrates women poets ' call for ...
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She is one of the most important and influen- tial poets in America , a poetic voice indispensable to contemporary Amer- ican poetry because her work tracks a deepening cultural and political consciousness and her keen perception of ...
She is one of the most important and influen- tial poets in America , a poetic voice indispensable to contemporary Amer- ican poetry because her work tracks a deepening cultural and political consciousness and her keen perception of ...
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... culture , the female body , women's creativity , and social justice . In giving birth to herself as a writer and poet in the course of her poetic evolution , she challenges the existing social order and interrelationships between ...
... culture , the female body , women's creativity , and social justice . In giving birth to herself as a writer and poet in the course of her poetic evolution , she challenges the existing social order and interrelationships between ...
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Rich calls for not just a transformation of our individual lives but also a transformation within American and global culture . The critic Jeanne Perrault distinguishes Rich's own mode of writing about the self , called autography ...
Rich calls for not just a transformation of our individual lives but also a transformation within American and global culture . The critic Jeanne Perrault distinguishes Rich's own mode of writing about the self , called autography ...
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Contents
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| 9 | |
Eruptions of the Female Psyche | 39 |
New Poetry Enters the World | 71 |
Seeing Is Changing Writing Is Renaming | 97 |
To Be an American Woman | 127 |
A New Relationship to the Universe | 159 |
Here Is a Map of Our Country | 187 |
Poetrys Inadmissible Untimely Messenger | 209 |
A Revolutionary Textual Strategy Embodying the Materiality of Womens Experience | 223 |
Fox Postmodern Adrienne Rich | 241 |
Notes | 249 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index of Adrienne Richs Works | 269 |
General Index | 273 |
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Page 63 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 97 - ... radical implications than we have yet come to appreciate. Patriarchal thought has limited female biology to its own narrow specifications. The feminist vision has recoiled from female biology for these reasons; it will, I believe, come to view our physicality as a resource, rather than a destiny.
Page 60 - I mean to imply not simply the tracing of descent through the father . . . but any kind of group organization in which males hold dominant power and determine what part females shall and shall not play, and in which capabilities assigned to women are relegated generally to the mystical and aesthetic and excluded from the practical and political realms, (p.
Page 25 - Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Page 148 - From that school, I went on to Radcliffe, congratulating myself that now I would have great men as my teachers. From 1947 to 1951, when I graduated, I never saw a single woman on a lecture platform, or in front of a class, except when a woman graduate student gave a paper on a special topic. The "great men" talked of other "great men...
Page 56 - Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
Page 169 - When I speak of an end to suffering, I don't mean anesthesia. I mean knowing the world, and my place in it, not in order to stare with bitterness or detachment, but as a powerful and womanly series of choices: and here I write the words, in their fullness: powerful; womanly.
Page 56 - A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes.
Page 53 - We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Change Contributions in women's studies, ISSN 0147-104X |
| Author | Cheri Colby Langdell |
| Publisher | Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0313316058, 9780313316050 |
| Length | 277 pages |
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