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" Robert Frost and a poetics of appetite / "
Katherine Kearns
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BL
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630929
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Kearns, Katherine
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Robert Frost and a poetics of appetite /\ Katherine Kearns
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;; 77
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xi, 228 pages ;; 24 cm
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0521444853
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: 9780521444859
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-223) and index
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| Contents
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Irony: Teiresias's gaze -- Irony II: this is not a pipe -- Women: Dryads, witches, and hill wives -- Eros: the mischief maker -- Prosody: white noise -- Lyricism: at the back of the north wind
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Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost's poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by, feminist analysis, and it evaluates Frost's persistent feminizing of poetic language in ways that he typically dramatizes as both erotic and humiliating. Kearns examines how Frost's dual and potentially conflicting obligations - to be manly and to be a poet - inform his entire poetics. Rather than approaching Frost's poetry with the methods and assumptions of deconstruction in mind, Professor Kearns finds that Frost himself forces a deconstructive reading: his unstable ironies, his complexities, and his manipulations of form are designed precisely to produce the conviction that any suggestion of significance is arbitrary and personal. The study unites biography, psychology, and feminism in creating an adept and imaginative instrument of interpretation
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Frost, Robert,1874-1963-- Criticism and interpretation
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Feminism and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Sex (Psychology) in literature
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Poetry-- Psychological aspects
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Appetite in literature
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Poetics-- History-- 20th century
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811/.52
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PS3511.R94Z7577 1994
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