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Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition

Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition

Lipking, Lawrence

Paperback

Series: Women in Culture and Society

Poetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0226484548
ISBN13: 9780226484549
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 15 1988
Pages: 327
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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 religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.

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