The poetry of Louise Glück : a thematic introduction

The poetry of Louise Glück : a thematic introduction / Daniel Morris.

"Explores Glück's utilization of masks of characters from history, the Bible, and fairy tales, discussing the persistent themes and transitional tone of her poetry through close reading of her early work, Firstborn; through the book-length sequences Ararat, Meadowlands, and The Wild Iris;...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morris, Daniel, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Glück, Louise, > 1943-2023 > Criticism and interpretation.
Glück, Louise, > 1943- > Criticism and interpretation.
Glück, Louise, > 1943-
Glück, Louise, > 1943- > analys och tolkning.
Glück, Louise.
POETRY > American > General.
Lyrik
Thema
Gedichten.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Poems are autobiography" : toward imagining a postconfessionalist's biography
  • Dedicated to hunger : a poetics of desire
  • Visions and revisions : commentary and the question of being a contemporary Jewish poet
  • The wound in the word : trauma theory and the question of witness
  • Challenging trauma theory : witnessing divine mystery
  • The House on Marshland : second nature writing and the entrance into the symbolic
  • Should I say it with flowers? : Ararat and the work of mourning through nature poetry
  • Errand in the spiritual wilderness : The Wild Iris as contemporary prayer sequence
  • Mythic fragment : sequence, commentary, and the composition of the lyric self through The Odyssey in Meadowlands.

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