Love Poetry, Women’s Bonding and Feminist Consciousness
Abstract: This article examines Adrienne Rich’s Twenty-One Love Poems in relation to Edna St Vincent Millay’s Fatal Interview. Discussing notions such as lyric voice and innovation within traditional genres, the author analyses how Millay’s attempts to challenge commonplace definitions of female sexuality impacted on Rich’s articulation of sexual desire. The intertextual dialogue between the above works reveals that Millay and Rich produced two remarkably similar erotic narratives, which resist masculinist conceptions of literary history and comment on the self-referentiality of poetic composition. Finally, the author approaches Fatal Interview as a work that foregrounds the significance of women’s bonding, and argues that it was precisely this aspect that caught Rich’s attention and helped the younger poet develop her feminist consciousness
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: European Journal of Women's Studies ; 13 (2006) 1 ; 39-57
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Englische Literatur Amerikas
Englische Literatur
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2006
- Urheber
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Michailidou, Artemis
- DOI
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10.1177/1350506806060005
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-225055
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte
- Michailidou, Artemis
Entstanden
- 2006