American Women's poetry from the mid-Twentieth Century

Naked and fiery forms: Modern American poetry by women, a new tradition (Harper colophon books)

Juhasz, Suzanne

Harper Colophon

In a profound, touching book, Juhasz traces her life through her reading--from her girlhood infatuation with Little Women to her adult experiences with such authors as Gloria Naylor and Isabel Miller--and shows how her choices helped her understand her desires for selfhood and true love.

Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love

Parenting & Relationships

Penguin??Books

A Good copy in a Good dust wrapper of "...a careful analysis of Dickinson's poetry about mental experience, about what it means for a woman poet to have "lived in her mind."" Wear to dust wrapper. Wave along side edging of dust wrapper. Faint scratching and curl to dust wrapper. Staining inside dust wrapper does not show to outside. Blue boards have spotting along top edging but crisp silver lettering on spine. Foxing to page edging on all sides. Foxing along top and bottom edging of dust wrapper. 189 pages. Front inside flap crease runs through the front flyleaves to page 2. Back inside flap crease starts on page 179 through back flyleaves. Text is clean with no markings. Contents:"Acknowledgments; "The Landscape of the Spirit";"To Make a Prairie";"Peril as a Possession";"Delight is as the Flight";"Costumeless Consciousness";"I'm ceded--I've stopped being Theirs"; Notes; Index To Poems Cited" From back inside flap:"["The Undiscovered Continent"] is a solid and lasting contribution to Dickinson scholarship and a model for feminist critics of other women writers."--Jane Marcus"

The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

In this boldly revisionary work, three noted Dickinson scholars take issue with the traditional tragic image of the poet. Focusing on the comic elements in Dickinson's art from a feminist point of view, they show how Dickinson uses the comedic resources of language to contest all types of orthodoxy and to offer the possibility of transforming society.Following a jointly written chapter on "Comedy and Performance in Emily Dickinson's Poetry," each author takes up a different aspect of comedy in Dickinson's work. Suzanne Juhasz looks at teasing as a form of humor and criticism. Martha Nell Smith examines the cartoons (reproduced in this book) with which Dickinson illustrated some of her poems and letters and explores the way in which other poems present imagery in cartoon-like sequences. And Cristanne Miller delves into the humor of excess or grotesquerie which Dickinson uses to unhinge the reader's normalizing frames of reference and make space for a different perspective.These views introduce a new Emily Dickinson - playful, wry, witty, tough, bold, challenging, and successful. Comic Power in Emily Dickinson recovers a poet who questioned not only authority but also the structure of her society. It makes an important contribution to studies of women's humor and the relationship, between gender and authority.

Comic Power in Emily Dickinson

Miller, Cristanne

Smith, Martha Nell

University of Texas Press

Critical studies of poems by Dickinson, Moore, Levertov, Plath, Sexton, Brooks, Giovanni, Alta, and Rich trace the development of a now distinct tradition of poetry by women

Naked and Fiery Forms: Modern American Poetry by Women : A New Tradition

Octagon Books

The touching story of how a lifetime of reading romance fiction helped one woman understand her desires for selfhood and true love examines the ways in which reading can help all women deal with changing sexuality and identity.

Reading from the Heart: Woman, Literature, and the Search for True Love

Viking Adult

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Emily Dickinson: Celebration F (Studies in Gende)

History

Routledge

This book explores women's desire for women as it is located in examples of twentieth-century British and American women's writing, including fiction, memoir, and poetry by such writers as Virginia Woolf, Vivian Gornick, Dorothy Allison, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marilyn Hacker, and Audre Lorde. Suzanne Juhasz discusses how literary writing functions to enact and negotiate a series of relationships between women: daughter-mother, mother-daughter, lesbian lover-lesbian lover, writer-reader, and reader-writer. She shows how writing is a component of interpersonal relationships and how relationships are central to the construction of personal and social identity. Uniquely weaving together psychoanalytic, feminist, queer, and literary theory as well as memoir to examine the value and meaning of relationships between women, Juhasz explores the writings of adult daughters, mothers, and lovers to consider how language both traces and shapes the contours of experience. She emphasizes the initial bond between mother and infant as the bedrock of identity formation, a process involving love, recognition, desire, and language, and shows how that relationship serves as source and model for all future loves. Juhasz's lucid prose unravels the meaningful yet overlooked intricacies of the relationships that inflect much of women's writing in the twentieth century.

A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women

Rutgers University Press

This book explores women's desire for women as it is located in examples of twentieth-century British and American women's writing, including fiction, memoir, and poetry by such writers as Virginia Woolf, Vivian Gornick, Dorothy Allison, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marilyn Hacker, and Audre Lorde. Suzanne Juhasz discusses how literary writing functions to enact and negotiate a series of relationships between women: daughter-mother, mother-daughter, lesbian lover-lesbian lover, writer-reader, and reader-writer. She shows how writing is a component of interpersonal relationships and how relationships are central to the construction of personal and social identity.Uniquely weaving together psychoanalytic, feminist, queer, and literary theory as well as memoir to examine the value and meaning of relationships between women, Juhasz explores the writings of adult daughters, mothers, and lovers to consider how language both traces and shapes the contours of experience. She emphasizes the initial bond between mother and infant as the bedrock of identity formation, a process involving love, recognition, desire, and language, and shows how that relationship serves as source and model for all future loves.Juhasz's lucid prose unravels the meaningful yet overlooked intricacies of the relationships that inflect much of women's writing in the twentieth century.

Metaphor and the Poetry of Williams, Pound, and Stevens.

Poetry

Associated Univ Pr

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Naked and fiery forms: Modern American poetry by women, a new tradition (Harper colophon books)

Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love

The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind

Comic Power in Emily Dickinson

Naked and Fiery Forms: Modern American Poetry by Women : A New Tradition

Reading from the Heart: Woman, Literature, and the Search for True Love

Emily Dickinson: Celebration F (Studies in Gende)

A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women

A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women

Metaphor and the Poetry of Williams, Pound, and Stevens.