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Seeing in the Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb

Seeing in the Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb

Butling, Pauline

Paperback

Literary FiguresPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0889202710
ISBN13: 9780889202719
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: Mar 20 1997
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural dark of Western thought. By blurring the axis between light and dark, she redefined in positive terms women's subjectivity and sexuality, which are traditionally assigned dark negative values.

Seeing in the Dark includes perceptive discussions on a number of Webb's collections, specifically Naked Poems, Wilson's Bowl, Water and Light and Hanging Fire. Butling shows how Webb uses strategies of subversion, reversal and re-vision of prevailing traditions and tropes to facilitate seeing in the dark. She also provides a fascinating analysis of Webb criticism - tracing it over the past thirty years and revealing a shift in critical paradigms. A chapter on biography includes intriguing archival material.

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