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050 00 $aPS151$b.K56 1994
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100 1 $aKinnahan, Linda A.$q(Linda Arbaugh)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93057686
245 10 $aPoetics of the feminine :$bauthority and literary tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser /$cLinda A. Kinnahan.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1994.
300 $axi, 285 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v74
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-277) and index.
505 0 $a1. "The Full of My Freed Voice": Williams and Loy, Feminism and the Feminine. The New Freewoman, the Egoist, and the Feminine. The Feminist Movement, Mina Loy, and Others. The Feminine as Resistance to Authority -- 2. In The American Grain: Proclaiming a Feminine Ground. A Maternal Model for Tradition. History's Myth of Discovery: Mastery's "outward thrust" The Feminine Ground of Contact: "a moral source not reckoned with" Language and the Local: "a woman drawing to herself... myriad points of sound" -- 3. Denise Levertov: The Daughter's Voice. A Maternal Mode of Authority: "The voice / a wave rising" A Discourse in Compassion: "Revolution in the poem. The Houses of Tradition: "rise up / with changed vision" -- 4. Kathleen Fraser: A Tradition of Marginality. Language Innovation and a Feminist Poetics: "to re-write the flood" Language Dis-ease: "What structure gagged me?" Language, Gender, and Tradition: "inside / (jittery / burned language)" Spring and All: New and Hidden Tradition.
505 0 $aConclusion: Paterson and the Question of Authority.
520 $aThis book examines the early work of William Carlos Williams in relationship to a woman's tradition of American poetry, as represented by Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser - three generations of women poets working in or directly from a modernist tradition. Joining revisionary studies of literary history, Professor Kinnahan sees Williams's work as both developing from the poetics of modernist women and as influencing subsequent generations of American women poets.
520 8 $aWilliams's poetry and prose of the 1910s and 1920s is read as a struggle with issues of gender authority in relationship to poetic tradition and voice. Linda Kinnahan traces notions of the feminine and the maternal that develop as Williams seeks to create a modern poetics. The impact of first-wave American feminism is examined through an extended analysis of Mina Loy's poetry as a source of a feminist modernism for Williams. Levertov and Fraser are discussed as poetic daughters of Williams who strive to define their voices as women and to reclaim an enabling poetic tradition.
520 8 $aIn the process, each woman's negotiations with poetic authority and tradition call into question the relationship of poetic father and daughter.
520 8 $aPositioning Williams in relationship to these three generations of Anglo-American women writing within or descending from the modernist movement, the book pursues two questions: What can women poets, writing with an informed awareness of Williams, teach us about his modernist poetics of contact, and just as importantly, what can they teach us about the process, for women, of constructing a writing self within a male-dominated tradition?
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100764
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103672
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113456
600 10 $aFraser, Kathleen,$d1935-2019$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aLevertov, Denise,$d1923-1997$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101081
600 10 $aWilliams, William Carlos,$d1883-1963$xInfluence.
600 10 $aLoy, Mina$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85066122
650 0 $aAuthority in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008614
830 0 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v74.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83705629
852 00 $bglx$hPS151$i.K56 1994