Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition by Lawrence Lipking

Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition

Women in Culture and Society

Lawrence Lipking

327 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction poetry reflective medium-paced
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At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for...

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