Essential Essays (eBook)

Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

Adrienne Rich (Autor)

Sandra M. Gilbert (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
352 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-35514-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich's most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality and identity are still powerful and relevant today. Discussing everything from her fearless poetic vision to her revolutionary views on social justice, Rich's essays unite the political, personal and poetical.Included are Rich's landmark essays "e;Motherhood as Experience and Institution"e;; "e;What Is Found There"e;; "e;Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts"e; and "e;Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence"e;. As Sandra Gilbert writes, "e;To re-read and to re-think Rich's prose as a complete oeuvre is to encounter a major public intellectual..."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.8.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: activism • arts of the possible • blood bread and poetry • compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian experience • Criticism • discourse • Essayist • feminist • Gender • LGBTQ • of woman born • on lies secrets and silence • Political • politics of motherhood • second wave feminism • smith college • what is found there • why i refused the national medal for the arts
• ISBN-10: 0-393-35514-4 / 0393355144
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35514-7 / 9780393355147