Writing Lovers
Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women
Published on 14. May 2014
273 pages
978-0-7735-7227-0 (ISBN)
Description
In writings by the French post-structuralists, rhetorical tropes such as speechlessness, fragmentation, and deflection testify to the writer''s difficulty in broaching the subject of love. Similarly, Cook shows that love poetry proceeds out of a profound failure of language resulting from the opacity of discourse, its lack of neutrality, or the fugitive transparency of reference. Writing Lovers also explores race, ethnicity, age, and sexual identity within the context of the passionate excesses of amatory discourse.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
United States
File size
14,74 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-7227-0 (9780773572270)
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04/2005
McGill-Queen's University Press
€154.50
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Language of Love: An Oblique Beginning
- 2 Love and Other Unofficial Stories: Narrative Prowling in Kristjana Gunnars' The Prowler
- 3 Possessed by Love: The Metaphoric Production of Desire in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
- 4 In Between: Dionne Brand's Poetics of Love and Resistance
- 5 Love Letters from an Unmade Bed: Dorothy Livesay's Poetics of Disquiet
- 6 On the Line: Revenge as Confessional Strategy in Kristjana Gunnars' Carnival of Longing and Nicole Markotic's "No Goodbye, Just:
- 7 Bone Memory: Love and Breath in Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow
- 8 Speaking in Tongues: Daphne Marlatt's Answering Touch or How To Sign a Love Letter
- 9 Postscript
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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