Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space [electronic resource] : Experimental Cities /
Skoulding, Z.author.
This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their work are placed in the context of theories of urban space, while new visions of the contemporary city and its global relationships are drawn from their innovations in language and form.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: LOCATION -- 1. Address and Rhythm -- PART II: VISION, POWER AND KNOWLEDGE -- 2. Alice Notley: Disobedient Cities -- 3. Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities -- PART III: LANGUAGE AND LOCALITY -- 4. Geraldine Monk's Restless Soil -- 5. Agnes Lehoczky and the Palimpsestic City -- PART IV: POLIS -- 6. Eri;n Moure's Irruptive Citizenship -- 7. Lisa Robertson: Prosody of the Polis -- PART V: ACTS OF ATTENTION -- 8. Against Background: Reframings of the City -- 9. Performance and Absence in the Heterotopian City -- Conclusion.
This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their work are placed in the context of theories of urban space, while new visions of the contemporary city and its global relationships are drawn from their innovations in language and form.
Sociology, Urban.
Poetry.
Literature.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literature, general.
Gender Studies.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.