American poets in 1976

Table of Contents: “…., Bequest, from She -- Anne Sexton: From 1928 to Whenever: A Conversation with Anne Sexton, With Mercy for the Greedy, Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward, The Little Peasant, The Fury of Cocks -- Louis Simpson: Rolling Up, The Foggy Lane, Dinner at the Sea-View Inn, Baruch -- Dave Smith: Sailing the Back River, Among the Oyster Boats at Plum Tree Cove, Hard Times, But Carrying On, March Storm, The Shark in the Rafters, The Spinning Wheel in the Attic, The Wives at Old Point Comfort, Mending Crab Pots, Near the Docks, Cumberland Station, Night Fishing for Blues -- William Stafford: Making a Poem/Starting a Car on Ice, Whispered into the Ground, My Mother Looked Out in the Morning, One of the Stories, Saying a Name, Run Sheep Run, Kinds of Winter, Stereopticon -- Primus St. …”


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Twentieth-Century American Poetry.

Table of Contents: “…Merwin (b. 1927) -- Anne Sexton (1928-1974) -- Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) -- Gary Snyder (b. 1930) -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) -- Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992)…”
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Mapping the World of Anglo-American Studies at the Turn of the Century. by Aleksandra Nikievic-Batricevic, Marija Krivokapic

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- Reading Richard Powers at the Turn of the Century -- Toril Moi's Reading of Simone de Beauvoir -- Allan Houser's and Bob Haozous' Vision of Indianness -- The Universal and Timeless World of Shakespeare's Work -- Modern Critical Approaches to Shakespeare -- Less is More -- "Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori" -- Anne Sexton's Search for ÉcritureFéminine -- Between American Contemporary Literature and Albanian Culture -- Poetic Image as Communicational Media in the Poetryof Seamus Heaney -- Saul Bellow's Neo-Transcendentalism Under the Influence of European Modernist Literature and American Literary Tradition -- The Power of Narration in The Woman Warrior -- Dealing with Evanescence -- PART TWO -- Linguistic Cyberpunking -- Translation and Arts Discourse -- A New Vision for the Future -- Humour and Horror in the Classroom -- Mapping the Importance of Metacognitive Strategies in ForeignLanguage Reading Classroom -- Genre Pedagogy and EFL Teaching through Writing -- Shifting Identities -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.…”
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Coming to light : American women poets in the twentieth century

Table of Contents: “…Gilbert -- Sylvia Plath, the Bell jar, and related poems / Marilyn Yalom -- Sylvia Plath's baby book / Barbara Antonina Clarke Mossberg -- "I tapped my own head" : the apprenticeship of Anne Sexton / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- Lucile Clifton : a changing voice for changing times / Andrea Benton Rushing -- Answering the deer : genocide and continuance in American Indian women's poetry / Paula Gunn Allen -- "I go where I love" : an intertextual study of H.D. and Adrienne Rich / Susan Stanford Friedman --Epilogue : Philomela's loom / Patricia Klindienst Joblin.…”


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The 60s : the story of a decade

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Modern Confessional Writing : New critical essays. by Gill, Jo

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The Vintage book of American women writers

Table of Contents: “…(Alice Bradley Shelton) -- Shirley Jackson -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Hisaye Yamamoto -- Flannery O'Connor -- Anne Sexton -- Cynthia Ozick -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Adrienne Rich -- Sylvia Plath -- Annie Proulx -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Amy Tan -- Jhumpa Lahiri.…”


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Tangled vines : a collection of mother and daughter poems

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Nature's ban : women's incest literature

Table of Contents: “…Wilkins Freeman -- 22 Hyde Park Gate ; From A sketch of the past / Virginia Woolf -- Coyote takes his daughter as a wife / Mourning Dove -- The triskelion / Christina Stead -- From Peyton Place / Grace Metalious -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath -- The child who favored daughter / Alice Walker -- The breadwinner / Amrita Pritam -- From I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- From The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) ; Divorce, thy name is woman / Anne Sexton -- The invisible hunter / Elena Shvarts -- A woman was raped / Veronica Cunningham -- Progenitor / Bernice Zamora -- With no immediate cause / Ntozake Shange -- Bubba Esther, 1888 / Ruth Whitman -- Mr. …”


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The Evil image : two centuries of Gothic short fiction and poetry

Table of Contents: “…Coppard -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Clytie / Eudora Welty -- the River / Flannery O'Conner -- Briar Rose / Anne Sexton -- Suffer the Little Children / Stephen King -- Suggestions for Further Reading in the Gothic Tradition.…”


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Reading women : literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present

Table of Contents: “…1929""; ""8 'Luxuriat[ing] in Milton's Syllables': Writer as Reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road""; ""9 Poor Lutie's Almanac: Reading and Social Critique in Ann Perry's The Street""; ""10 One of Those People Like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': The Pathologized Woman Reader in Literary and Popular Culture""…”
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Women's work : an anthology of American literature

Table of Contents: “…Vincent Millay -- Caroline Gordon -- Mari Sandoz -- Louise Bogan -- Meridel Le Sueur -- Lillian Hellman -- Eudora Welty -- Mary McCarthy -- Tillie Olsen -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Amy Clampitt -- Hisaye Yamamoto -- Denise Levertov -- Flannery O' Connor -- Maya Angelou -- Anne Sexton -- Adrienne Rich -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Toni Morrison -- Sylvia Plath -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Bharati Mukherjee -- Louise Gluck -- Alice Walker -- Anne Beattie -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Rita Dove -- Amy Tan -- Louise Erdrich.…”


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Feminist criticism : essays on theory, poetry, and prose

Table of Contents: “…: a poet, her critics, and her place in 'the literary tradition' / Susan Friedman -- 'The blood jet' : the poetry of Sylvia Plath / Suzanne Juhasz -- 'I dare to live' : the transformation art of Anne Sexton / Rise B. Axelrod -- Mythopoeia, the moon and contemporary women's poetry / Dianne F. …”


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A history of modern poetry by Perkins, David, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…The postwar period : introduction ; Robert Penn Warren, Theodore Roethke, and Elizabeth Bishop ; Breaking through the new criticism ; Robert Lowell ; In and out of the movement : the generation of the 1950s in England ; English poetry in the 1960s and 1970s ; The poetry of Ireland ; Open form ; Poetry in New York and San Francisco ; Against "civilization" ; Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich ; Black poets of America ; Meditations of the solitary mind : John Ashbery and A.R. …”


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100 great poems by women : a golden Ecco anthology

Table of Contents: “…Vincent Millay -- Ruth Pitter -- Louise Bogan -- Leonie Adams -- Janet Lewis -- Hildegarde Flanner -- Stevie Smith -- Eve Triem -- Lorine Niedecker -- Josephine Jacobsen -- Kathleen Raine -- Mary Barnard -- Rosalie Moore -- Muriel Rukeyser -- May Swenson -- Gwen Harwood -- Ruth Stone -- Judith Wright -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Muriel Spark -- Elma Mitchell -- Hilda Morley -- Amy Clampitt -- Rosemary Dobson -- Mona Van Duyn -- Constance Urdang -- Marie Ponsot -- Denise Levertov -- Lisel Mueller -- Maxine Kumin -- Anne Sexton -- Diana O'Hehir -- Adrienne Rich -- Elaine Feinstein -- Sylvia Plath -- Marge Piercy -- Lucille Clifton -- Judith Emlyn Johnson -- Margaret Atwood -- Kelly Cherry -- Sharon Olds -- Linda Gregg -- Marilyn Hacker -- Louise Gluck -- Sandra McPherson -- Tess Gallagher -- Eavan Boland -- Carol Muske -- Veronica Forrest-Thomson -- Jane Kenyon -- Carolyn Forche -- Medbh McGuckian -- Brenda Hillman -- Jorie Graham -- Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Thylias Moss.…”


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Gracefully insane : the rise and fall of America's premier mental hospital by Beam, Alex

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Intimate relationships; marriage, family, and lifestyles through literature

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Personal effects : the social character of scholarly writing

Table of Contents: “…Scholarly memoir : an un-"professional" practice / Margaret Willard-Traub -- In the name of the subject : some recent versions of the personal / Jeffrey Gray -- Radical introspection : the personal in scholarship and teaching / Brenda Daly -- Loss, memory, and the work of learning : lessons from the teaching life of Anne Sexton / Paula M. Salvio -- Knowledge has a face : the Jewish, the personal, and the pedagogical / Susan Handelman -- Who was that masked author? …”
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The equivalents : a story of art, female friendship, and liberation in the 1960s by Doherty, Maggie

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Death in American texts and performances : corpses, ghosts, and the reanimated dead

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