Gender and the poetics of excess : moments of brocade / Karen Jackson Ford.

• Ch. 1. The Poetics of Excess: Fantastic Flourishes of Gold Thread -- Ch. 2. Emily Dickinson: Moments of Brocade -- Ch. 3. Gertrude Stein: A Crazy Quilt of Style -- Ch. 4. Sylvia Plath: Splitting the Seams of Fancy Terza Rima -- Ch. 5. The Black Arts Movement: We Survive in Patches ... Scraps.

• The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess vary with each poet, but by conceiving of poetic excess in relation to literary decorum, this study establishes a shared motivation for such a strategy. Literary decorum is one instrument a culture employs to constrain its writers. Perhaps it is the most effective because it is the least definable. 

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Amerikansk poesi  (sao)

Kvinnor och litteratur  (sao)

Amerikansk experimentell poesi  (sao)

Literary form.  (LCSH)

American poetry  -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women and literature  -- United States -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Experimental poetry, American  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American poetry  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Authorship  -- Sex differences. (LCSH)

American poetry.  (fast)

Experimental poetry, American.  (fast)

Literary form.  (fast)

Women and literature.  (fast)

American poetry  -- Women authors. (fast)

Authorship  -- Sex differences. (fast)

Women and literature  (LCSH)

American poetry  (LCSH)

Experimental poetry, American  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

United States.  (fast)

1900-talet  (sao)

1900-1999  (fast)

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Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

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American poetry

American poetry

Authorship

Experimental poetry, American

Literary form

Women and literature

Klassifikation

PS151 (LCC)

811.009/9287 (DDC)