Cover of Sarah Parker: Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930

Sarah Parker Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930

Price for Eshop: 924 Kč (€ 37.0)

VAT 0% included

New

E-book delivered electronically online

E-Book information

Pickering & Chatto Publishers

2013

PDF
How do I buy e-book?

978-1-78144-022-3

1-78144-022-0

Annotation

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at <i>fin-de-siecle</i> and modernist lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these challenges and identifies three key strategies: the reconfiguring of the muse as a contemporary instead of a historical/mythological figure; the muse as a male figure; and an interchangeable poet/muse relationship, granting agency to both.

Ask question

You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.