Suzanne Juhasz

Cristanne Miller

Camille Roman

A Sourcebook

The Women and Language Debate

The focus of this title, first published in 1989, begins with Dickinson¿s poems themselves and the ways in which we read them. There are three readings for each of the six poems under consideration that are both complementary and provocative. The selected poems show Dickinson speaking of herself in increasingly wider relationships ¿ to love, the outside world, death and eternity ¿ and are grouped together to reveal her overlapping attitudes and feelings. Other topics discussed range from general epistemological and critical considerations to the poet¿s self-identification and the process of reading her poetry as a feminist critic. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

A Celebration for Readers

Emily Dickinson

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Celebration for Readers : Proceedings of the Conference Held on September 19-21, 1986 at the Claremont Colleges

The focus of this title, first published in 1989, begins with Dickinson’s poems themselves and the ways in which we read them. There are three readings for each of the six poems under consideration that are both complementary and provocative. The selected poems show Dickinson speaking of herself in increasingly wider relationships – to love, the outside world, death and eternity – and are grouped together to reveal her overlapping attitudes and feelings. Other topics discussed range from general epistemological and critical considerations to the poet’s self-identification and the process of reading her poetry as a feminist critic. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

Chair Department of English and Edward H Butler Professor of Literature Cristanne Miller

Martha Nell Smith

In this boldly revisionary work, three noted Dickinson scholars take issue with the traditional tragic image of Emily Dickinson by focusing on the comic elements of her art from a feminist point of view.

Comic Power in Emily Dickinson

Metaphor and the Poetry of Williams, Pound, and Stevens

This book explores women's desire for women as it is located in examples of twentieth-century British and American women's writing, including fiction, memoir, and poetry by such writers as Virginia Woolf, Vivian Gornick, Dorothy Allison, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marilyn Hacker, and Audre Lorde. Suzanne Juhasz discusses how literary writing functions to enact and negotiate a series of relationships between women: daughter-mother, mother-daughter, lesbian lover-lesbian lover, writer-reader, and reader-writer. She shows how writing is a component of interpersonal relationships and how relationships are central to the construction of personal and social identity. Uniquely weaving together psychoanalytic, feminist, queer, and literary theory as well as memoir to examine the value and meaning of relationships between women, Juhasz explores the writings of adult daughters, mothers, and lovers to consider how language both traces and shapes the contours of experience. She emphasizes the initial bond between mother and infant as the bedrock of identity formation, a process involving love, recognition, desire, and language, and shows how that relationship serves as source and model for all future loves. Juhasz's lucid prose unravels the meaningful yet overlooked intricacies of the relationships that inflect much of women's writing in the twentieth century.

Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships Between Women

A Desire for Women

While feminist criticism has come only recently to the study of Emily Dickinson, it seems inevitable that Dickinson -- the greatest woman poet in the English language -- should be viewed in the cultural, psychological, historical, and literary context of her womanhood. The essays in this collection are dedicated to the continued exploration and definition of Dickinson's artistry. "Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson" heralds an exciting new vision of the work of a great poet. -- From publisher's description.

Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson

Critical studies of poems by Dickinson, Moore, Levertov, Plath, Sexton, Brooks, Giovanni, Alta, and Rich trace the development of a now distinct tradition of poetry by women

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