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Books : Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice


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from: Palgrave Macmillan

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914099287
EAN: 9780333734377
ISBN: 0333734378
Label: Palgrave Macmillan
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
Number Of Pages: 275
Publication Date: 2000-06
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Sales Rank: 644959
Studio: Palgrave Macmillan





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Product Description:
A resource for students, teachers, and anyone interested in contemporary poetry. This collection offers the opportunity for readers to engage with the work of important figures and issues in late 20th-century women's poetry from two perspectives: that of poets themselves, and that of literary criticism. The poets discuss their writing practice and the reasons for their poetic strategies, while the literary critics, many of whom are also poets themselves, contextualize, analyze and situate the work of a wide range of poetry by some of the most significant women poets in Britain and North America.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - New Critical Approaches to Contemporary Women's Poetry
For anyone interested in contemporary women's writing, this collection of essays is a must! In moving across the usual publishing categories that are based around nation, race, and poetic school or grouping (such as Language writing), this volume does not sacrifice an awareness of the cultural specificity of poetic production when exploring the various formal and thematic crosscurrents occurring between poetries being written today. Essays broach a range of issues, including the relationship of ... Read More




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