The Birth-mark: Essays - Softcover

Howe, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811224651 ISBN 13: 9780811224659

Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017

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Críticas:

Monomania has its rewards--an incantatory power that shines through.

Invaluable--a reconnaissance mission in language and history.--John Palattella

An astonishing work re-presenting the American past, its history, literature, texts, and critics. At once gnomic and lucid, grave and scintillating--passionate [with] fierce originality.--Rachel Blau DuPlessis

We workday scholars must not be intimidated by this scholar-poet's fierce critical exactitudes. Howe's is a critical model for our schooling, a procedure and an ethos well worth study, opposition, imitation, revision. 'I am heading toward certain discoveries.' Not knowledge, or what Howe so brilliantly explores under the name 'Sovereignty, ' but exploration.--Jorome McGann

Howe is among the most articulate and inventive writers we have, and cements her eminent position in a lineage of pedagogical poets of the United States. She instructs by intuitive connections between disparate strands. Her books continue to reveal possibilities in the most out-of-the-way texts. This library cormorant and her daring trespasses remain as shocking and singular as ever.--Jonathan Creasy

The fabled violence of American patrimony is here tracked and qualified by brilliantly perceptive readings. Susan Howe, herself 'a library-cormorant' in Coleridge's phrase, brings to her task the powers of a major poet and the adamant measure of the 'Other' she, as all women, have been forced to be. This remarkable book is vivid testimony of that voice we can no longer silence.--Robert Creeley

The Birth-mark flashes out the figure of the Poet who stands behind Howe's poems--a figure who is, I have come to believe, at the heart of her achievement--and it gives a spirited lesson in how important essays are.--Eric Murphy Selinger

Reseña del editor:

Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where eachtext is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters, professors, and editors eager for settlement. Howe approaches Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville and Emily Dickinson as a fellow writer—as a poet and feminist as much as a critic: her insights, fierce and original, are rooted in her seminal textural scholarship in examination of their editorial histories of landmark works. In the process, Howe uproots settled institutionalized roles of men and women as well as of poetry and prose.

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• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0811224651
• ISBN 13: 9780811224659
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208