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100 1 Ford, Karen Jackson.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
/n97043642
245 10 Gender and the poetics of excess :|bmoments of brocade /
|cKaren Jackson Ford.
264 1 Jackson :|bUniversity Press of Mississippi,|c[2009]
264 4 |c©2009
300 1 online resource (x, 272 pages)
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and
index.
520 8 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. The excesses discussed
here, like the criteria of decorum against which they are
perceived, cannot be itemized as an immutable set of
traits. Though decorum and excess shift over time and in
different cultures, their relationship to one another
remains strikingly stable. Thus, nineteenth-century
standards for women's writing and late twentieth-century
standards bear almost no relation. Emily Dickinson's do
not anticipate Gertrude Stein's or Sylvia Plath's or Jayne
Cortez's or Ntozake Shange's. Yet the charges of
indecorousness leveled at these women poets repeat a fixed
set of abstract grievances. Dickinson, Stein, Plath,
Cortez, and Shange all engage in a poetics of excess as a
means of rejecting the limitations and conventions of
"female writing" that the larger culture imposes on them.
In resisting conventions for feminine writing, these poets
developed radical new poetries, yet their work was
typically criticized or dismissed as excessive. Thus,
Dickinson's form is classified as hysterical and her
figures tortured. Stein's works are called repetitive and
nonsensical. Plath's tone is accused of being at once
virulent and confessional, Cortez's poems violent and
vulgar, Shange's work vengeful and self-righteous. The
publishing history of these poets demonstrates both the
opposition to such an aesthetic and the necessity for it.
Karen Jackson Ford is a professor in the English
department at the University of Oregon
588 0 Print version record.
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648 7 1900-1999|2fast
650 0 American poetry|xWomen authors|xHistory and criticism.
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650 0 Women and literature|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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650 0 Experimental poetry, American|xHistory and criticism.
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650 0 American poetry|y20th century|xHistory and criticism.
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aFord, Karen Jackson.|tGender and the
poetics of excess.|dJackson : Univ Pr Of Mississippi, 2009
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