Poetic Sisters

Author : Deborah Kennedy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611484854

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Poetic Sisters by Deborah Kennedy Pdf

In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford; Sarah Dixon; and Mary Jones. Richly illustrated and elegantly written, this book brings the eighteenth century to life, presenting a diverse range of material from serious religious poems to amusing verses on domestic life. The work of Anne Finch, author of "A Nocturnal Reverie," provides the cornerstone for this well informed study. But it was Elizabeth Rowe who achieved international fame for her popular religious writings. Both women influenced the Countess of Hertford, who wrote about the beauty of nature, centuries before modern Earth Day celebrations. Sarah Dixon, a middle-class writer from Kent, had a strong moral outlook and stood up for those whose voices needed to be heard, including her own. Finally, Mary Jones, who lived in Oxford, was praised for both her genius and her sense of humor. Poetic Sisters presents a fascinating female literary network, revealing the bonds of a shared vocation that unites these writers. It also traces their literary afterlife from the eighteenth century to the present day, with references to contemporary culture, demonstrating how their work resonates with new generations of readers.

Author : Lorraine Anderson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029155762

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Sisters of the Earth by Lorraine Anderson Pdf

This book introduces us to female perspectives on nature. Over 90 selections, from Emily Dickinson to Alice Walker, span a century and encompass the voices of a variety of women--some known for their writing on nature, and several outstanding new voices

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0253112583

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Shakespeare's Sisters by Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar Pdf

Author : Noura Maheeb
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524678968

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The Sisters That Met Misfortune by Noura Maheeb Pdf

Three sisters seek to run away from misfortunes and ask an old witch, Miss Fort, to help them. Their quest takes them on a long journey, and on that journey of love and loss, they discover that there are bigger problems in life than the problems the world has set upon themproblems that come from within themselves rather than from the world outside.

Author : Natalia Castro
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365095481

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Poetic Pepper by Natalia Castro Pdf

Author : JaneL. Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351550260

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"Saints, Sinners, and Sisters " by JaneL. Carroll Pdf

A collection of original essays, Saints, Sinners, and Sisters showcases the diverse questions currently being asked by gender scholars dealing with French, Netherlandish and German art from the medieval and early modern periods. Moving beyond the reclamation of personalities and oeuvres of 'lost' female artists, the contributors pose questions about gender and sex within specific historical contexts, addressing such issues as intended audience, use of the object, and patronage. These avenues of inquiry intersect with larger cultural questions concerning societal control of women. The book's three sections, 'Saints,' 'Sinners,' and 'Sisters, Wives, Poets' are each preceded by a concise introductory essay, detailing themes and offering reflective comparisons of theses and information. In 'Saints,' contributors look at women who were positive exemplar used by society to uphold standards. In the second section, the essays focus on the power of women's sexuality. The third section expands beyond the customary dichotomous division of the first two to examine women in diverse roles not widely studied as positions of women in those times. This final section expands our definitions of women's responsibilities and realigns them historically; it argues that women, and thus gender, need to be understood within a much broader historical context and beyond simplistic approaches sometimes superimposed by present-day readers on past times. This volume answers an acute need for research on the art of Northern Europe prior to the 20th century, and highlights the possibilities of new directions in the field. The effect of the new scholarship presented here is to broaden the discursive field, allowing fluidity of disciplinary boundaries, resulting in a volume that is illuminating to historians of more than art alone.

Author : Lawrence Lipking
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226484521

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Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition by Lawrence Lipking Pdf

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.

Author : Veronica B. White
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781481757591

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The Poetic Messenger by Veronica B. White Pdf

Everyone has a story to tell. Veronica White believes that stories should be told in a poetic or prose fashion that enable people to relate and feel the experiences of others. She believes that stories of people who cannot write or express their experiences in life must also be heard through written or spoken words. In order to tell the stories of others, Veronica has learned to empathize by putting herself in the other persons shoes or in the situation. As a result, she writes as a messenger to tell the story of the joy, pain, and frustrations of others -- as depicted in the poetic prose: Anger swells Stories tell Of emotional pain That is not mine to claim The old The young Those who are illiterate Must be heard through Written or spoken words They cannot write They cannot recite Dark tales that stole their life Stories of shame Stories of blame Stories of guilt are not mine to claim I am just the messenger of their pain.

Author : Betsy Bonner
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781947793873

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The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing by Betsy Bonner Pdf

An NPR Best Book of the Year A Vanity Fair Best Summer Read "A haunting, mind-bending memoir. . . . riveting." —New York Times "A mixture of biography and true crime, this narrative . . . offers more plot twists, shocking revelations and shady characters than most contemporary thrillers." —NPR The Book of Atlantis Black will have you questioning facts, rooting for secrets, and asking what it means to know the truth. A young woman is found dead on the floor of a Tijuana hotel room. An ID in a nearby purse reads “Atlantis Black.” The police report states that the body does not seem to match the identification, yet the body is quickly cremated and the case is considered closed. So begins Betsy Bonner’s search for her sister, Atlantis, and the unraveling of the mysterious final months before Atlantis’s disappearance, alleged overdose, and death. With access to her sister’s email and social media accounts, Bonner attempts to decipher and construct a narrative: frantic and unintelligible Facebook posts, alarming images of a woman with a handgun, Craigslist companionship ads, DEA agent testimony, video surveillance, police reports, and various phone calls and moments in the flesh conjured from memory. Through a history only she and Atlantis shared—a childhood fraught with abuse and mental illness, Atlantis’s precocious yet short rise in the music world, and through it all an unshakable bond of sisterhood—Bonner finds questions that lead only to more questions and possible clues that seem to point in no particular direction. In this haunting memoir and piercing true crime account, Bonner must decide how far she will go to understand a sister who, like the mythical island she renamed herself for, might prove impossible to find.

Author : Tim Fulford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009320801

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Experimentalism in Wordsworth's Later Poetry by Tim Fulford Pdf

Author : Gillian Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107037922

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Producing Women's Poetry, 1600-1730 by Gillian Wright Pdf

Gillian Wright combines literary and bibliographical approaches to examine the work of five English women poets in the period 1600-1730.

Author : Xiaorong Li
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804439

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Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China by Xiaorong Li Pdf

This study of poetry by women in late imperial China examines the metamorphosis of the trope of the "inner chambers" (gui), to which women were confined in traditional Chinese households, and which in literature were both a real and an imaginary place. Originally popularized in sixth-century "palace style" poetry, the inner chambers were used by male writers as a setting in which to celebrate female beauty, to lament the loneliness of abandoned women, and by extension, to serve as a political allegory for the exile of loyal and upright male ministers spurned by the imperial court. Female writers of lyric poetry (ci) soon adopted the theme, beginning its transition from male fantasy to multidimensional representation of women and their place in society, and eventually its manifestation in other poetic genres as well. Emerging from the role of sexual objects within poetry, late imperial women were agents of literary change in their expansion and complication of the boudoir theme. While some take ownership and de-eroticizing its imagery for their own purposes, adding voices of children and older women, and filling the inner chambers with purposeful activity such as conversation, teaching, religious ritual, music, sewing, childcare, and chess-playing, some simply want to escape from their confinement and protest gender restrictions imposed on women. Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China traces this evolution across centuries, providing and analyzing examples of poetic themes, motifs, and imagery associated with the inner chambers, and demonstrating the complication and nuancing of the gui theme by increasingly aware and sophisticated women writers.

Author : Patrick Cheney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444396553

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Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry by Patrick Cheney Pdf

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres Poems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare’s major poems - Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint- in the context of his dramatic career Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler

Author : Erik Martiny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444336733

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A Companion to Poetic Genre by Erik Martiny Pdf

A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, among others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal, and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake. The book also approaches genres driven by theme, such as the calypso and found poetry. Each chapter begins by defining the genre in its initial stages, charting historical developments and finally assessing its latest mutations, be they structural, thematic, parodic, assimilative, or subversive.

Author : Linda K. Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107182479

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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry by Linda K. Hughes Pdf

Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.