Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite

by Katherine Kearns

Book Overview

Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost's poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by feminist analysis, and it evaluates Frost's persistent feminising of poetic language in ways that he typically dramatises as both erotic and humiliating. Kearns examines how Frost's dual and potentially conflicting obligations - to be manly and to be a poet - inform his entire poetics. Rather than approaching Frost's poetry with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521109981
• ISBN13: 9780521109987
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"