Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition

by Lawrence Lipking

Book Overview

At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function--in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226484548
• ISBN13: 9780226484549
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"