Poetic memory : the forgotten self in Plath, Howe, Hinsey, and Glück /
How do poems remember? What kinds of memory do poems register that factual, chronological accounts of the past are oblivious to? What is the self created by such practices of memory? To answer these questions, Uta Gosmann introduces a general theory of 'poetic memory, ' a manner of thinkin...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Madison : Lanham, Md. :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield,
2011.
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| Summary: | How do poems remember? What kinds of memory do poems register that factual, chronological accounts of the past are oblivious to? What is the self created by such practices of memory? To answer these questions, Uta Gosmann introduces a general theory of 'poetic memory, ' a manner of thinking that eschews simple-minded notions of linearity and accuracy in order to uncover the human subject's intricate relationship to a past that it cannot fully know. Gosmann explores poetic memory in the work of Sylvia Plath, Susan Howe, Ellen Hinsey, and Louise GlYck, four American poets writing in a wide range of styles and discussed here for the first time together. Drawing on psychoanalysis, memory studies, and thinkers from Nietzsche and Benjamin to Halbwachs and Kristeva, Gosmann uses these demanding poets to articulate an alternative, non-empirical model of the self in poetry. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611470376 1611470374 1283362392 9781283362399 |