The American Love Lyric After Auschwitz and Hiroshima (Paperback, 1st ed. 2001)

Citing the massive horrors of the Nazi death camps and the domestic violence behind a woman's suicide, Adrienne Rich challenges a fellow poet: 'would it relieve you to decide/Poetry doesn't make this happen?' In this provocative reassessment of the modern American love lyric, Barbara L. Estrin chronicles the return of three major American poets (Wallace Stevens in the late forties and fifties, Robert Lowell in the Seventies, and Adrienne Rich in the nineties) to the mid-century catastrophes that gave rise to such thorny questions. Through close readings of individual poems (and drawing upon the gender and genre theories of Jean Francois Lyotard, Judith Butler, Melanie Klien, and Jacques Lacan), Estrin counters the usual presuppositions that the lyric remains sequestered in a-political isolation, and offers a new, revisionist critique of American poetry.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2002
First published:	2001
Authors:	B. Estrin
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	253
Edition:	1st ed. 2001
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-63205-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-349-63205-8
Barcode:	9781349632053

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