Fashioning the female subject
Subtitle: the intertextual networking of Dickinson, Moore, and Rich
By: Sabine Sielke.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Rich, Adrienne Cecile -- Criticism and interpretation.; American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History.; Subjectivity in literature.; Women in literature.; Feminist poetry -- History and criticism.; Intertextuality.
Description: In Fashioning the Female Subject, Sabine Sielke addresses the often nebulous concept of female subjectivity through a critical analysis of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and Adrienne Rich, each of whom has uniquely fashioned and transformed the female subject over the last 150 years.

Applying the feminist theories of Kristeva, Irigaray, and Cixous, Sielke articulately develops a notion of female subjectivity as an intertextual network, a network whose three historically distinct levels illustrate a clear evolution in the poetics designs of such subjectivity.

Fashioning the Female Subject is a re-reading of American women's poetry, a partial revisioning of French feminist theory, and a reassessment of Adrienne Rich as a central figure in American feminist theory. Offering a revisionary sense of literary history, Sielke's book offers a new model of literary affiliation to readers of poetry, scholars of literary history, feminist critics, and literary theorists alike.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität Berlin, 1992.
Table of contents: title: Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore : select defects; title: disrupted discourse and the body; title: Marianne Moore and Adrienne Rich : daughters-in-law or outlaws?; title: Adrienne Rich and Emily Dickinson : from absence to feminist transcendence; title: female subjectivity as process in history; title: Self-fashioning or subjected in style? : the intertextual networking of female subjectivity.