Poetic epistemologies : gender and knowing in women's language-oriented writing

Author(s)

• Simpson, Megan

Bibliographic Information

Poetic epistemologies : gender and knowing in women's language-oriented writing

Megan Simpson

（SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory / edited by Michelle A. Massé）

State University of New York Press, c2000

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Poetic Epistemologies explores the political and epistemological implications of women's language-oriented writing in the United States, arguing that, in its investigation of knowledge, language, and gender, this writing (re)unites art with philosophy, and both with social critique. Featuring eight contemporary and four earlier-twentieth-century poets—including Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Leslie Scalapino, Mina Loy, and Gertrude Stein—Simpson emphasizes each writer's unique contribution to the emerging tradition of feminist epistemological poetry. Drawing upon original interviews, as well as poststructuralist and feminist theory, Poetic Epistemologies offers an informed account of one of the most vital recent developments in contemporary American poetry.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Language-Oriented Feminist Epistemology, and the Case of Lyn Hejinian "A space that has opened": Gender and Language Language-Oriented Feminist Epistemology "Night Knowledge": Lyn Hejinian's Faustienne Poetics 2. "Come, words, away": Modernist Women's Invitations to Innovation Laura Riding's Lifelong Project with Language Inside Language as Language with Gertude Stein "From stepping-stone to stone of creative explorations": Mina Loy's Deconstruction of Femininity Slipping the Knot of Language: Realism and Indeterminacy for H.D. 3. Subjects of Knowledge: Processing Gender and Sexuality Beverly Dahlen Lori Lubeski Laura Moriarty 4. Feminist Phenomenologies: Language as the Horizon of Encounter Leslie Scalapino Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Carla Harryman 5. "Cries open to the words inside them": Textual Truth and Historical Materialism in the Poetry of Susan Howe Interventions in History: Recovering the Feminine Intertextuality and the Material Word The "Visible surface of Discourse" A Poetics of Encounter Notes Works Cited Index

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Details

• NCID: BA48340930
• ISBN:
  • 0791444457
  • 0791444465
• LCCN: 99037947
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 222 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS310.L33
  • DC21 : 811.5099287
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Language and languages in literature
  • LCSH : American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
  • LCSH : Gender identity in literature
  • LCSH : English language -- Sex differences
  • LCSH : Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13510579