Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson : The Feminist Poetics of Self-Restraint
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This book examines the strategic possibilities of poetic self-restraint. Marianne Moore,Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson all wrote poetry that is marked by a certain reserve--precisely the motive against which most feminist poets and critics of the last thirty years have established themselves. Kirstin Hotelling Zona complicates this dichotomy by examining the conceptions of selfhood upon which it depends. She argues that Moore, Bishop, and Swenson expressed their commitment to feminism by exposing its most treasured assumptions: they not only challenge the ideal of autonomous self-definition, but also contest the integrity of a bodily or sexual authenticity by which that ideal is often measured.
Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson: The Feminist Poetics of Self-Restraint,Kirstin Riter Hotelling Zona,University of Michigan Press,0472113046,20th century,American - General,American poetry,Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979,Feminism and literature,General,History,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972,Poetry,United States,Women and literature,Women authors,Women's Studies - General,Bishop, Elizabeth,Criticism and interpretation,English,Moore, Marianne,Poetry & poets,Social Science / Gender Studies,Sociology, Social Studies,Swenson, May,USA
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