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The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930
Contributor(s): Parker, Sarah (Author)
ISBN: 184893386X     ISBN-13: 9781848933866
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $161.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.809
LCCN: 2014378552
Series: Gender and Genre
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.11 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-si cle and modernist lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these challenges and identifies three key strategies: the reconfiguring of the muse as a contemporary instead of a historical/mythological figure; the muse as a male figure; and an interchangeable poet/muse relationship, granting agency to both.