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ON BURNING GROUND
THIRTY YEARS OF THINKING ABOUT POETRY |
| By: |
Sandra M. Gilbert |
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Hardback |
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£64.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0472070568 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780472070565 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
6 January, 2009 |
| Series: |
Poets on Poetry |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
A collection of essays that explore poetics, personal identity, feminism, and modern and contemporary literature. |
| Synopsis: |
Sandra Gilbert is a highly esteemed literary critic and poet, best known for her feminist literary collaborations with Susan Gubar, with whom she coauthored "The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination".Author of seven collections of poetry and a highly regarded memoir about the death of her husband, Gilbert has also been a recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEH, and Soros Foundation fellowships.The essays assembled in "On Burning Ground" display Gilbert's astonishing range and explore poetics, personal identity, feminism, and modern and contemporary literature. Yet throughout, each piece is united by Gilbert's wit, insight, and intelligence.Among the pieces gathered here are essays on D. H. Lawrence, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and Claire Malroux, as well as reviews and previously unpublished articles. |
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US |
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The University of Michigan Press |
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Returnable |
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