Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995
Title | Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 1995-09-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393348067 |
"When does a life bend towards freed? grasp its direction" asks Adrienne Rich in Dark Fields of the Republic, her major new work. Her explorations go to the heart of democracy and love, and the historical and present endangerment of both. A theater of voices of men and women, the dead and the living, over time and across continents, the poems of Dark Fields of the Republic take conversations, imaginary and real, actions taken for better or worse, out of histories and songs to extend the poet's reach of witness and power of connection--and then invites the reader to participate.
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
Title | On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 1995-04-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0393348113 |
In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Title | Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2021-04-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 039386734X |
The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation. In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the act of mothering to be both determined by and distinct from the institution of motherhood as it is imposed on all women everywhere. A “powerful blend of research, theory, and self-reflection” (Sandra M. Gilbert, Paris Review), Of Woman Born revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their own liberation. With a stirring new foreword from National Book Critics Circle Award–winning writer Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much wisdom and insight today as when it was first written.
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006
Title | Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 109 |
Release | 2009-04-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0393334783 |
"Rich's lyrics are powerful and mournful, drenched in memory." --San Francisco Chronicle
Adrienne Rich
Title | Adrienne Rich PDF eBook |
Author | Liz Yorke |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1997-12-12 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781446240458 |
Adrienne Rich is a major American poet who continues to be inspired by the political ideas and activism of various liberation movements of the twentieth century. Whether expressed in poetry or in prose, her ideas have been much debated, particularly within second wave feminism. This unique introduction focuses on Rich's prose work but also makes reference to the poetry where her political ideas and urgencies often find their first expression. Demonstrating the compexity and subtlety of her contribution to feminism, the book outlines her wide-ranging thoughts on, for example, motherhood, heterosexuality, lesbian and Jewish identity, and issues of racial and sexual otherness. Liz Yorke conveys the range and importance of Rich's achievements and highlights the major themes which are interwoven in her work.
Modern Confessional Writing
Title | Modern Confessional Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Gill |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2006-03-29 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 113429977X |
A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, and include the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the contributors to this volume evaluate and critique conventional readings of confessionalism. Orthodox, humanist notions of the literary act of confession and its assumed relationship to truth, authority and subjectivity are challenged, and in their place a range of new critical perspectives and practices are adopted. Modern Confessional Writing develops and tests new theoretically-informed views on what confessional writing is, how it functions, and what it means to both writer and reader. When read from these new perspectives modern confessional writing is liberated from the misconception that it provides a kind of easy authorial release and readerly catharsis, and is instead read as a discursive, self-reflexive, sophisticated and demanding genre.
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8, Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995
Title | The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8, Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995 PDF eBook |
Author | Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 568 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521497336 |
Multi-volume history of American literature.