Write Or be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural ConstraintsBarbara Smith, Ursula Appelt Ashgate, 2001 - 281 pages Although the field of early modern women's studies has blossomed in recent years, little attention has been paid to women poets of the period. This new collection is specifically designed to fill the gap, applying new critical methodologies and theories to this group of early modern writers. Write or Be Written also contributes to ongoing debates about canonicity, periodicity, disciplinarity, and the construction of knowledge. The essays in this volume reflect today's sophisticated critical thinking, and represent a broad range of approaches and methodologies. Topics covered include contextualizing the self; female discursive strategies; religious discourses and gender; writing a female space; negotiating power and desire; female writing and the marketplace/publishing; and revisions of male-dominated poetic conventions and traditions. |
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... poetry performs makes it an at once contested and contestatory mode . The seventeenth century saw an intensified reconceptualization of the relationships between poetry and politics , reader and author , manuscript and print , authority ...
... poetry performs makes it an at once contested and contestatory mode . The seventeenth century saw an intensified reconceptualization of the relationships between poetry and politics , reader and author , manuscript and print , authority ...
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... poetry which circulated ' privately ' in manuscript , in her collections of the 1680s Behn combined some of the conventions of the two systems of poetry circulation . In the process , she brought a number of women poets into print ...
... poetry which circulated ' privately ' in manuscript , in her collections of the 1680s Behn combined some of the conventions of the two systems of poetry circulation . In the process , she brought a number of women poets into print ...
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... poetic correspondence , as well as to her roles as ' public ' poet and editor . In the seventeenth century , printed poetry circulated in broadsheet and in single - author and miscellany volumes ; poetry was also disseminated in many ...
... poetic correspondence , as well as to her roles as ' public ' poet and editor . In the seventeenth century , printed poetry circulated in broadsheet and in single - author and miscellany volumes ; poetry was also disseminated in many ...
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