Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition
(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226484548
ISBN13:9780226484549
Release Date:September 1988
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:327 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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