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Adrienne Rich The Moment of Change
Cheri Colby Langdell
Book Code: GM1605
ISBN: 0-313-31605-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31605-0
296 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 5/30/2004
List Price: $82.95 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Women's Studies
Series Number: 198
Reviews:
  • Langdell traces Rich's several transformations, including one "transfiguration," from neoclassically influenced modernist, through radical feminist cultural critic, to neo-Marxist prophet of postmodern America. Throughout, Langdell's insightful analyses of individual poems succeed in making the case for a progressive development of Richean ideology....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
    —Choice     January 2005
  • Cheri Colby Langdell has written an ambitious and thorough treatment of Adrienne Rich's poetry covering the half century from her first volume, A Change of World in 1951 to Fox, Poems 1999-2000....Adrienne Rich is one of the most important poets writing today, both for her style and her mission, and Langdell is a passionate and energetic proponent of her work.
    —NWSA Journal     Spring 2007
Description: Although best known as a poet, Adrienne Rich is a versatile critic and a gifted writer of nonfiction and critical theory. Writing in the oracular tradition of Whitman and Dickinson, she affirms the will to change as an enduring commitment in her life and poetry. One of America's most outspoken literary figures, her courage in speaking out against injustice in the United States and worldwide has earned her the kind of international political following few American poets enjoy. This book is a much-needed comprehensive study of her life and career. The volume covers the full progression of her poetry from the beginning through her most recent work. It clarifies her entire poetic output and illuminates her concepts of nation, the female body, power, and women's sexuality. In doing so, it draws on a vast body of literary, theoretical, and cultural scholarship. While the book offers a thorough study of Rich and her works, it also examines the critical reaction that her controversial writings have engendered.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Chronology
  • Introduction: A Woman Sworn to Lucidity
  • Beginnings: Deliberate Detachment and Conscious Craft
  • Eruptions of the Female Psyche
  • New Poetry Enters the World
  • Seeing Is Changing, Writing Is Renaming
  • To Be an American Woman
  • A New Relationship to the Universe
  • Here Is a Map of Our Country
  • Poetry's Inadmissible Untimely Messenger
  • A Revolutionary Textual Strategy Embodying the Materiality of Women's Experience
  • Fox: Postmodern Adrienne Rich
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 2003026476
LCC Class: PS3535
Dewey Class: 811
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