Understanding Adrienne Rich (eBook)

Jeannette E. Riley (Autor)

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2016
142 Seiten
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-61117-700-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The study of the full career of an award-winning writer that evolved from traditional to radical

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The journey of an important feminist writer through poetry, prose, and politics

Among the most celebrated American poets of the past half century, Adrienne Rich was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award. In Understanding Adrienne Rich, Jeannette E. Riley assesses the full scope of Rich's career from 1957 to her death in 2012 through a chronological exploration of her poetry and prose.

Riley details the evolution of Rich's feminist poetics as she investigated issues of identity, sexuality, gender, the desire to reclaim women's history, and what she terms "the dream of a common language." Throughout the book she documents Rich's gradually developing assertion that poetry can create social change and engage people in the democratic process. Interweaving explications of Rich's poetry with analysis of her prose, Riley offers a close look at the development of the author's voice from formalist poet to feminist visionary to citizen poet.

Autor

Jeannette E. Riley is professor of English and gender and women's studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her writings on Adrienne Rich have appeared in edited collections dedicated to Rich's work and in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Reihe/Serie: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Verlagsort: Columbia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Adrienne Rich • Anne Bradstreet • another woman • Betty Friedan • Bollingen Prize • Crone • Elizabeth Bishop • extended metaphor • feminist • Lannan Award • Mary Daly • Muriel Rukeyser • Nadine Gordimer • National Book Award • poet, essayist, feminist, lesbian, Bollingen Prize, National Book Award, Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, identity, sexuality, gender, literary criticism, Snapshots Daughter-in-Laws, Diving into Wreck, Human Eye, Necessities Life, Leaflets, Will to Change • Poetry • Radical citizenship • Sandra Gilbert • sense of place • spirit of place • Susan Gubar • The Dream of a Common Language • The Feminine Mystique • The Subjection of Women • waldman
• ISBN-10: 1-61117-700-6 / 1611177006
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-700-8 / 9781611177008