Essential Essays
Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
Seiten
2018
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-65236-9 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-65236-9 (ISBN)
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich’s most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality and identity are still powerful and relevant today. Discussing everything from her fearless poetic vision to her revolutionary views on social justice, Rich’s essays unite the political, personal and poetical.
Included are Rich’s landmark essays “Motherhood as Experience and Institution”; “What Is Found There”; “Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts” and “Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence”. As Sandra Gilbert writes, “To re-read and to re-think Rich’s prose as a complete oeuvre is to encounter a major public intellectual...”
The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich’s most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality and identity are still powerful and relevant today. Discussing everything from her fearless poetic vision to her revolutionary views on social justice, Rich’s essays unite the political, personal and poetical.
Included are Rich’s landmark essays “Motherhood as Experience and Institution”; “What Is Found There”; “Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts” and “Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence”. As Sandra Gilbert writes, “To re-read and to re-think Rich’s prose as a complete oeuvre is to encounter a major public intellectual...”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose. Sandra M. Gilbert is a distinguished literary critic and poet. Together with Susan Gubar, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBCC. She lives in Berkeley, California.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.08.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 244 mm |
| Gewicht | 843 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-65236-X / 039365236X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-65236-9 / 9780393652369 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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