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Adrienne Rich The Moment of Change
Cheri Colby Langdell
ISBN: 0-313-31605-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31605-0
296 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 5/30/2004
List Price: $82.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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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. It covers the full progression of her poetry from the beginning through her most recent work. In doing so, it clarifies her entire poetic output and illuminates her concepts of nation, the female body, power, and women's sexuality.

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
About the Author: CHERI COLBY LANGDELL is Adjunct Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.
LCC Class: 811
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