Women's poetry and popular culture
By: Marsha Bryant
Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780230609419
Subjects: Popular culture and literature; Popular culture in literature; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Women authors; English poetry; American poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; History
Description: "Women's Poetry and Popular Culture brings a fresh approach to the field by showing that poems by women do not always subvert the mainstream, the media, and the marketplace. Bridging feminist and cultural studies, the book shows how British and American women poets often operate as cultural insiders. Individual chapters reassess major figures (H.D., Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath), alternative modernist poets (Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith), and contemporary poets (Ai, Carol Ann Duffy)"--