How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics

by Adalaide Morris

Book Overview

The writing of H.D. is so linguistically rich and multilayered in structure that it has had almost as many interpretations as it has interpreters, from Freudians to feminists, from classicists to postmodernists. In How to Live/What to Do, however, Adalaide Morris removes the work of this iconic poet, dramatist, and novelist from compartments into which it has historically been placed. As she examines the "ongoingness" of H.D.'s writing, Morris...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252075919
• ISBN13: 9780252075919
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"