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Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition

Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition( )
Author: Lipking, Lawrence
Series title:Women in Culture and Society Ser.
ISBN:978-0-226-48452-5
Publication Date:Jul 1988
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $101.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:327
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Literary Criticism / Feminist
Poetry / Women Authors
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.628 x 0.909 x 0.101 Inches
Book Weight:1.351 Pounds



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