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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Main Author: Gosmann, Uta, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison : Lanham, Md. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Sylvia Plath : re-membering The colossus
  • Susan Howe's nonconformist memorials
  • Spacing the past in Ellen Hinsey's Cities of memory
  • Psychoanalyzing Persephone : Louise Glück's Averno
  • Epilogue.