Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers

by Mary E. Galvin

Book Overview

Galvin provides a critical look at the intersections between the development of queer consciousness and the poetic experimentations of Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D., one that places them in a continuum of non-heterocentric existence. While these writers were non-heterocentric in their personal identities, they were also all innovators of modernist poetics. For lesbians and other non-heterocentrically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275961060
• ISBN13: 9780275961060
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"