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Author Cook, Méira, 1964-

Title Writing lovers : reading Canadian love poetry by women / Méira Cook.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and index.
Contents The language of love : an oblique beginning -- Love and other unofficial stories : narrative prowling in Kristjana Gunnars' The prowler -- Possessed by love : the metaphoric production of desire in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept -- In between : Dionne Brand's poetics of love and resistance -- Love letters from an unmade bed : Dorothy Livesay's poetics of disquiet -- On the line : revenge as confessional strategy in Kristjana Gunnars' Carnival of Longing and Nicole Markotic's "No goodbye, just:" -- Bone memory : love and breath in Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue marrow -- Speaking in tongues : Daphne Marlatt's answering touch or how to sign a love letter.
Summary "Is it possible to capture something as ephemeral as love with mere words? Meira Cook draws on Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and Kristeva to wrestle with the theoretical problems of representing the unrepresentable. In Writing Lovers she searches for a language adequate to articulating the discourse of passion, desire, and longing."--Jacket.
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Subject Love poetry, Canadian -- History and criticism.
Love poetry, Canadian.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Love poetry, Canadian (English) -- History and criticism.
Women poets, Canadian (English)
Canadian poetry (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Canadian poetry (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Cook, Méira, 1964- Writing lovers. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2006540373
ISBN 9780773572270 (electronic book)
0773572279 (electronic book)
0773527974
9780773527973