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 ata fin-de-sieclea 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.
| ISBN: | 9781317319993 |
| Publication date: | 6th October 2015 |
| Author: | Parker, Sarah |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Format: | Ebook |
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 ata fin-de-sieclea 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.
Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930 is available in Ebook
Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930 was written by Parker, Sarah and published by Taylor and Francis
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