Arguments of heart and mind : selected essays 1977-2000 by Montefiore, Jan instant download

Arguments of heart and mind : selected essays 1977-2000 by Montefiore, Jan instant download

xvi, 259 pages ; 23 cm, \"In these essays a leading feminist critic and authority on women's poetry sets the terms for debate on identity, gender and tradition by exploring what it has meant to write in the twentieth century. Women's poetry is the dominant but not exclusive preoccupation of the book. The opening essays deal with women's poetry and the construction of traditions, from the pioneering 'In her own image: contemporary women poets' out of which Montefiore's Feminism and Poetry grew, to intertextual readings of women poets of World War I, of the 1930s, and of American feminists. The central section 'Writers and readings' engages closely with admired writers - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, D.J. Enright, Kipling, Adrienne Rich, Edgell Rickword, Sylvia Townsend Warner, In the final section, 'Culture and feminist theory' the author examines the constructions of gendered identity in a variety of contexts: poetic ambiguity, girls' school stories and psychoanalytic debates.\" \"Written with Montefiore's customary lucidity, elegance and wit, this book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in feminist literary studies, women's poetry and the problems of modern writing.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references and index, In her own image: contemporary women's poetry -- In their own images: an afterword -- Women and the English poetic tradition: the oppressor's language -- Shining pins and wailing shells: women poets and the Great War -- Undeservedly forgotten: women poets of the 1930s -- What words say: three women poets reading H.D.-- Edgell Rickword: an exchange with Alan Munton -- Day and night in Kipling -- Listening to Minna: realism, feminism and the politics of reading -- Sylvia Townsend Warner and the biographer's 'moral sense' -- A wise poet: D.J. Enright -- Aurora Leigh and the pure milk of the word -- 'Nothing to do with eternity?' Adrienne Rich, feminism and poetry -- Mirror writing: a dialogue -- Defining the feminine self -- The fourth…