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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Adrienne Rich"”.
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Getting Out of Wonderland: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton
… Alice books, by Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton. Influenced by the cultural fixation on the child and the increasing popularity of Freudian discourse in American culture, the rise of confessional poetry, and second-wave feminist interest in female socialization, …
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Discoverers of the Not-Known: Louise Bogan, Muriel Rukeyser, Sylvia Plath, May Swenson, and Adrienne Rich
… Muriel Rukeyser, Sylvia Plath, May Swenson, and Adrienne Rich not only express that wish but break new poetic ground as they turn away from the forms and subject matter of their brother artists and show what it means to be a women as well as an artist. They are, in the words of H.D., "voyagers, …
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"""A house of difference"": Constructions of the lesbian poet in Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Paula Gunn Allen"
… and lesbians, the poets I read--Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Paula Gunn Allen--are accorded very different literary status. In examining the processes, literary and cultural, that place them as poets, my dissertation contends that literary recognition, whether from feminist critics or …
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In “the American Strain”: The Hybrid Poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Chin, and Sherman Alexie
… distinctive from his modernist counterparts and Adrienne Rich, who initiated her revolution through a feminist poetics, which she later located within emergent nationalism. The poetic revolutions of these predecessors contributed to the upsurge of emergent poetries and poets in the 1980s and …
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Beneath the Body's Disguise: Poems
… pornography, and hope. David Mura, Ai, and Adrienne Rich, among others, are poets credited with both inspiration and particular craft elements and styles of writing included in the project. The final sections of original poems are informed by not only the poet’s but other shared stories of …
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Iconoclast in the mirror.
… Peircian semiotics. Tony Hoagland, W.H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and the poetic prose of Hélène Cixous provide textual examples of an evolving aesthetic in which the poet's self and world comprise multiple dynamic, open relationships supplanting one in which simple correspondences between …
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From future homemaker of America to the lesbian continuum: the queering of Mary Ann Singletone in Armistead Maupin's Tales
… writings of Michael Foucault, Judith Butlter, Adrienne Rich, Eve K. Sedgewich, and Simone de Beauvoir are vital in understanding how a straight woman journeys onto the lesbian continuum as a revolt against gender roles (defined by Butler and Beauvoir) and as a result of her friendship with …
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The Face You Draw into Your Skin Is Not Your Own
… and critical guidance provided in the works of Adrienne Rich, Lucille Clifton, Brenda Hillman, Rita Dove, Martin Espada, Juan Felipe Herrera, Khaled Mattawa, Anne Waldman, Alice Walker and Frank X. Walker, Czeslaw Milosz, and Marc Yakich. </p>
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They won't : analyzing queerbaiting and compulsory heterosexuality in popular television.
… to be more inclusive of gender identity. Adrienne Rich's theory of compulsory heterosexuality provides the best explanation for why queerbaiting happens and can offer new ways to analyze these texts to uncover queerbaiting when it occurs.
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"All violence is not equal"; Adrienne Rich's Post-9/11 Poetry and the Precarious Life
… the most influential poets of the last century, Adrienne Rich produced a remarkable body of work during the span of her sixty-year career. As her career progressed, she became increasingly concerned with the intersections between public and private spheres. Consequently, Rich's late twentieth and …
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Bramble and Knife
… that history. In this thesis, I interrogate what Adrienne Rich calls “a fascination and a terror” in the manifestation of men in women’s writing. I also see this fascination and terror in the animal body, as well as in the themes of extinction, both natural and familial. The collecting of these …
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Be-coming subjects: reclaiming a politics of location as radical political rhetoric
… and agency. In her book, Blood Bread and Poetry, Adrienne Rich coins the phrase "a politics of location," which marks an effort to move away from a hegemonic Western feminism that universalizes all women's experiences and constructs a normative (and hence limiting and exclusionary) subject of …
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American Journey Toward Female Equality with and Through Adrienne Rich's Works
… to the 1990's through the realm of the works of Adrienne Rich, American female poet. Rich's progression as a political feminist poet becomes a microcosm of the overall female journey toward equality. This piece also explores endeavors made by others that parallel Rich's venture. Through this …
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Verses on Auschwitz : images of the Holocaust in modern American poetry
… are Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Stephen Berg, Van Brock, W.D. Snodgrass, William Heyen and Charles Reznikoff. Where illustrative, comparisons to relevant European poets have been made, including Nellie Sachs and Paul Celan. It was concluded that …
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Feminist voice in african women novels: evidence from Flora Nwapa’s one is enough, Calitxhe Beyala’s the sun hath looked upon me and tsitsi dangaregmba’s nervous conditions
… feminist theory purported by scholars such as Adrienne Rich, Simone de Beauvoir and Kate Millett, to cite just a few. It is this theory that was used to investigate and come up with themes on the feminist voice. The study was guided by three objectives: (i) To examine how tradition and culture …
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THE JEWISH ANIMAL IN POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH AMERICAN POETRY
… American post-Holocaust poets, Gerald Stern, Adrienne Rich, and Maxine Kumin, this dissertation asks, “What does it mean to behave like a Jew when it comes to our ecological connections to other animal species?” and, more specifically, “What is the connection between post-Holocaust Jewish …
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Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895
… on gender difference, and, to borrow a term from Adrienne Rich, compulsory heterosexuality. These novels raise the questions "how am I to be different?" and "if men and women are so different, why should we marry?" This study demonstrates the ways in which these works respond to these questions in …
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If We Could Learn to Learn from Pain: A Contemporary Literary Ethics of Women's Suffering and Self-Sacrifice
… theories of ethics. In Chapter Two I argue that Adrienne Rich, famous for her critique of the institution of self-sacrificing motherhood and linked in the 1970s to radical feminist philosopher-theologian Mary Daly, paradoxically exemplifies an ethical practice of endless, self-giving …