Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost's poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by feminist analysis, and it evaluates Frost's persistent feminising of poetic language in ways that he typically dramatises as both erotic and humiliating. Kearns examines how Frost's dual and potentially conflicting obligations - to be manly and to be a poet - inform his entire poetics. Rather than approaching Frost's poetry with the methods and assumptions of deconstruction in mind, this book finds that Frost himself forces a deconstructive reading: his unstable ironies, his complexities and his manipulations of form are designed precisely to produce the conviction that any suggestion of significance is arbitrary and personal. The study unites biography, psychology and feminism in creating an adept and imaginative instrument of interpretation.
| ISBN: | 9780521109987 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2009 |
| Author: | Katherine Kearns |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost's poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by feminist analysis, and it evaluates Frost's persistent feminising of poetic language in ways that he typically dramatises as both erotic and humiliating. Kearns examines how Frost's dual and potentially conflicting obligations - to be manly and to be a poet - inform his entire poetics. Rather than approaching Frost's poetry with the methods and assumptions of deconstruction in mind, this book finds that Frost himself forces a deconstructive reading: his unstable ironies, his complexities and his manipulations of form are designed precisely to produce the conviction that any suggestion of significance is arbitrary and personal. The study unites biography, psychology and feminism in creating an adept and imaginative instrument of interpretation.
Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite is available in Paperback, Hardback
Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite was written by Katherine Kearns and published by Cambridge University Press
Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite has 248 pages
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