Poetics of the body
Subtitle: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Chin, and Marilyn Hacker
By: Catherine Cucinella.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780230620889
Subjects: Millay, Edna St. Vincent, -- 1892-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation; Bishop, Elizabeth, -- 1911-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation; Chin, Marilyn -- Criticism and interpretation; Hacker, Marilyn, -- 1942- -- Criticism and interpretation; American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Human body in literature; Women in literature
Description: This study examines representations of the body in the work of four important twentieth-century poets.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing the body; title: Textual and corporeal convergence : Edna St. Vincent Millay; title: Dress up! Dress up and dance at carnival : Elizabeth Bishop's poetic bodies; title: Writing the body palimpsest : Marilyn Chin; title: Persistently on paper we exist : stories and desire on and through the body : Marilyn Hacker; title: Interview with Marilyn Chin.