Volltext herunterladen
(107.0 KB)
Zitationshinweis
Bitte beziehen Sie sich beim Zitieren dieses Dokumentes immer auf folgenden Persistent Identifier (PID):
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-225055
Export für Ihre Literaturverwaltung
Love Poetry, Women’s Bonding and Feminist Consciousness
[Zeitschriftenartikel]
Abstract This article examines Adrienne Rich’s Twenty-One Love Poems in relation to Edna St Vincent Millay’s Fatal Interview. Discussing notions such as lyric voice and innovation within traditional genres, the author analyses how Millay’s attempts to challenge co... mehr
This article examines Adrienne Rich’s Twenty-One Love Poems in relation to Edna St Vincent Millay’s Fatal Interview. Discussing notions such as lyric voice and innovation within traditional genres, the author analyses how Millay’s attempts to challenge commonplace definitions of female sexuality impacted on Rich’s articulation of sexual desire. The intertextual dialogue between the above works reveals that Millay and Rich produced two remarkably similar erotic narratives, which resist masculinist conceptions of literary history and comment on the self-referentiality of poetic composition. Finally, the author approaches Fatal Interview as a work that foregrounds the significance of women’s bonding, and argues that it was precisely this aspect that caught Rich’s attention and helped the younger poet develop her feminist consciousness.... weniger
Freie Schlagwörter
feminist consciousness; literary influence; love poetry; Millay; Rich; women’s bonding;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Seitenangabe
S. 39-57
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Women's Studies, 13 (2006) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506806060005
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)