THE LESBIAN MUSE AND POETIC IDENTITY, 1889-1930 by Sarah Parker ( 9781848933866 )

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Title:

THE LESBIAN MUSE AND POETIC IDENTITY, 1889-1930

By:

Sarah Parker

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Hardback

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184893386X

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9781848933866

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

9 September, 2013

Series:

Gender and Genre

Pages:

240

Description:

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. Parker looks at fin-de-siecle lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these roles and identifies their key strategies.

Synopsis:

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-siecle 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.

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6 black & white illustrations

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Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd

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