description: A very strong contribution to the study of women's poetry. Feminist criticism which address is itself to issues of poetry is still quite rare, and this book is exemplary in that it deals with a central question, chooses a fine spectrum of representative poets, and conducts an investigation that is everywhere subtle and revealing. Since the issues of female creativity and of women's relationships are of course not confined to poets, but touch all women artists and indeed all women, this will be an important book to anyone concerned with women's studies," Alicia Ostriker, Rutgers University. The work explores ways in which modern women writers have re-envisioned creativity and the creative process. Rejecting the traditional male pattern of reliance on a classical female "Other" for Imaginative sustenance, These Women Have Struggled to Define Their Artistic Identities, Their Sources and Resources of Inspiration, On their own terms. Rather than invoking that passive inspire, modern women clean as muses powerful, active women through whom they find voice. The ATHENE series of Pergamon Press
language: English
title: Inspiring Women: Reimagining the Muse
titlecomplete: Inspiring Women: Reimagining the Muse (Athene Series)
publisher: Pergamon