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Adoption Papers
Adoptive Mother
Artist's Model
Artist’s Model
Author_Laura Severin
British Feminist Criticism
British modernist poets
British Women Poets
British Women's Poetry
British Women’s Poetry
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China Cup
Contemporary Women's Poetry
dramatic
Dramatic Monologue
edith
Edith Sitwell
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Fairy World
Farmer's Bride
Farmer’s Bride
feminist literary criticism
Free Women
gender and cultural identity
Human Suffering
Land Slides
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Liz Lochhead
lochhead
Middle Temple Hall
monologue
narrative poetic forms
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performance poetry analysis
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Print Page
radical tradition in women's poetry
Rap Poems
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True Confessions
Twentieth Century British Women
Twentieth Century Woman Poet
Welsh Women Writers
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Women Poets
women's representation literature
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754636687
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study examines the performed poetry of Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, and Jackie Kay as an alternative radical tradition of British poetry, developed to convey women's experience. Through a historical treatment in which the poets are discussed in pairs, the chapters trace how these six women used a performative poetry to deal with difficulties regarding women's representation: from simply presenting difference in the case of Mew and Wickham, to deconstructing difference in the case of Sitwell and Smith, to avoiding the recapture of cultural imagery in the case of Lochhead and Kay. Laura Severin claims that twentieth-century British women poets have been neglected by both feminist and more traditional literary critics because they cannot be read within available literary frameworks. Feminist criticism, in particular, has overlooked the value of other poetic ancestries by locating the only radical tradition of modern poetry in fractured form. At least one alternative radical tradition can be found in a narrative and performed poetry that maximizes its transgressive potential with multiple framing devices. Though a female poet always experiences difficulty in controlling both cultural imagery and her own public presentation, these framing devices work together both to deconstruct the essentialized category of woman and to recover the multiplicity of women's experience.
Laura Severin is Associate Professor of English at the North Carolina State University, USA.
