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1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index. |
| Summary |
How do poems remember? What kinds of memory do poems register that factual, chronological accounts of the past are oblivious to? What is the self created by such practices of memory? To answer these questions, Uta Gosmann introduces a general theory of 'poetic memory, ' a manner of thinking that eschews simple-minded notions of linearity and accuracy in order to uncover the human subject's intricate relationship to a past that it cannot fully know. Gosmann explores poetic memory in the work of Sylvia Plath, Susan Howe, Ellen Hinsey, and Louise GlYck, four American poets writing in a wide range of styles and discussed here for the first time together. Drawing on psychoanalysis, memory studies, and thinkers from Nietzsche and Benjamin to Halbwachs and Kristeva, Gosmann uses these demanding poets to articulate an alternative, non-empirical model of the self in poetry. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plath, Sylvia -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Plath, Sylvia. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Howe, Susan, 1937- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Howe, Susan, 1937- |
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Hinsey, Ellen, 1960- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hinsey, Ellen, 1960- |
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Glück, Louise, 1943-2023 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Memory in literature.
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Memory in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gosmann, Uta, 1973- Poetic memory. Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2012 9781611470369 (DLC) 2011014540 (OCoLC)704390062 |
| ISBN |
9781611470376 (electronic book) |
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1611470374 (electronic book) |
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1283362392 |
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9781283362399 |
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1611470366 |
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9781611470369 |
| Standard No. |
9786613362391 |
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