How to live/what to do
Subtitle: H.D.'s cultural poetics
By: Adalaide Morris.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: H. D. 1886-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Conduct of life in literature.
Description: "The writing of H.D. is so linguistically rich and multilayered in structure that it has had almost as many interpretations as it has interpreters, from Freudians to feminists, from classicists to postmodernists. In How to Live/What to Do, however, Adalaide Morris removes the work of this iconic poet, dramatist, and novelist from compartments into which it has historically been placed. As she examines the "ongoingness" of H.D.'s writing, Morris makes an eloquent and compelling case for a consideration of poems - all poems - as forms of cultural mediation, instructive historical documents that engage the reader in wide-ranging contemporary debates and use their acoustical richness to generate tangible cultural effects."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-248) and index.