: Sarah Parker
: Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930
: Pickering& Chatto Publishers
: 9781781440223
: 1
: CHF 100.90
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: Sonstiges
: English
Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets, how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-siecle and modernist lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these challenges and identifies three key strategies: the reconfiguring of the muse as a contemporary instead of a historical/mythological figure, the muse as a male figure, and an interchangeable poet/muse relationship, granting agency to both.