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Robert Frost and a poetics of appetite /

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0521444853

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9780521444859

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Title Proper

Robert Frost and a poetics of appetite /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Katherine Kearns

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 228 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;

Volume Designation

77

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-223) and index

Text of Note

Irony: Teiresias's gaze -- Irony II: this is not a pipe -- Women: Dryads, witches, and hill wives -- Eros: the mischief maker -- Prosody: white noise -- Lyricism: at the back of the north wind

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Text of Note

Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost's poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by, feminist analysis, and it evaluates Frost's persistent feminizing of poetic language in ways that he typically dramatizes as both erotic and humiliating. Kearns examines how Frost's dual and potentially conflicting obligations - to be manly and to be a poet - inform his entire poetics. Rather than approaching Frost's poetry with the methods and assumptions of deconstruction in mind, Professor Kearns finds that Frost himself forces a deconstructive reading: his unstable ironies, his complexities, and his manipulations of form are designed precisely to produce the conviction that any suggestion of significance is arbitrary and personal. The study unites biography, psychology, and feminism in creating an adept and imaginative instrument of interpretation

Frost, Robert,1874-1963-- Criticism and interpretation

Appetite in literature

Feminism and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Poetics-- History-- 20th century

Poetry-- Psychological aspects

Sex (Psychology) in literature

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Kearns, Katherine

Date of Transaction

20160712055532.0

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