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The pink guitar : writing as feminist practice / Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

Title
The pink guitar : writing as feminist practice / Rachel Blau DuPlessis.
Author
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau
Publication
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

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Description
x, 196 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
This book is a landmark study of women's writing and poetics--and representations of women artists--in the 20th century. It probes the work of H.D., William Carlos Williams, and Marcel Duchamp, among others, and includes the author's pioneering essay "For the Etruscans," described in American Literature as "one of the finest pieces of criticism in the feminist literary tradition."
Series Statement
Modern and contemporary poetics
Uniform Title
Modern and contemporary poetics
Subject
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • English literature > History and criticism
  • Feminism and literature > English-speaking countries
  • Women and literature > English-speaking countries
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Originally published: New York : Routledge, 1990.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-193) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
For the Etruscans -- Family, sexes, psyche: an essay on H.D. and the muse of the woman writer -- Pater-daughter: male modernists and female readers -- Sub Rrosa: Marcel Duchamp and the female spectator --Language acquisition -- "While these letters were a-reading": an essay on Beverly Dahlen's A Reading -- "Whowe": on Susan Howe -- Otherhow -- The pink guitar.
ISBN
  • 0817353224 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780817353223
LCCN
^^2006003493
OCLC
  • 63297829
  • SCSB-11429877
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library