Gender and the poetics of excess : moments of brocade /
The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess vary...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson, Miss. :
University Press of Mississippi,
©1997.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0585201552 9780585201559 1283275163 9781283275163 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess vary with each poet, but by conceiving of poetic excess in relation to literary decorum, this study establishes a shared motivation for such a strategy. Literary decorum is one instrument a culture em-ploys to constrain its writers. Perhaps it is the most effective because it is the least definable. The. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index. |
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