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Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition : Women in Culture and Society - Lawrence Lipking

Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition

By: Lawrence Lipking

Paperback | 15 September 1988 | Edition Number 1

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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 her perennial fascination? What is her function--in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.

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