Research Catalog

Title

Robert Frost and a poetics of appetite / Katherine Kearns.

Author

Kearns, Katherine.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Description

xi, 228 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• 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.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 76

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 76.

Subject

• Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 > Criticism and interpretation
• Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• Sex (Psychology) in literature
• Appetite in literature
• Poetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-223) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Serpent's Tail -- 1. Irony: Teiresias's Gaze -- 2. Irony II: This Is Not a Pipe -- 3. Women: Dryads, Witches, and Hill Wives -- 4. Eros: The Mischief Maker -- 5. Prosody: White Noise -- 6. Lyricism: At the Back of the North Wind -- Conclusion: Out Far and in Deep.

ISBN

0521444853 (hardback)

LCCN

93013986

OCLC

ocm28149357

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries