By Avon River
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813049970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A beautiful and thoughtful book.”—Jane Augustine, editor of The Gift and The Mystery H.D. Featuring a tour-de-force introduction and extensive explanatory notes, this is the first edition of the work to appear since its original publication in 1949.Increasingly after the war, H.D. sought new forms of writing to express her persistent interests in the politics of gender and in issues of nationhood and home. Vetter’s incisive introduction offers one of the first approaches to theorizing women’s late modernist literary production as advancing specifically hybrid works located at the juncture of personal, national, and nationalist concerns.”—Cynthia Hogue, coeditor of The Sword Went Out to Sea “This edition, with its finely written introduction and meticulous annotation, opens up new understandings of H.D., the major modernist writer, as she meditates, postwar, on the inner life of Shakespeare, the icon of English literature, and on the women missing from his plays. “Superb. made a pilgrimage to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace. By Avon River was one of her only postwar works to cross over to mainstream audiences, and, as such, is a welcome addition to our understanding of this significant modernist writer.. called By Avon River “the fi
“Vetter’s new introduction, notes, and glossary provide an invaluable guide to the writer’s historical and literary references without miring the text in the kind of pedantry and dry intellectualism its author so disliked.”—Times Literary Supplement
This would be a great introduction to a survey of troubadour writing A book in two parts: first, a semi-long poem called "Claribel" that gives an imaginary context to the female character who gets all but one offhand mention in The Tempest - as a daughter who's sole role was a gift to a foreign king. Helda gives her a purpose, a story, and dares to glance at the thoughts or inspiration behind her the writer who invented her.Then, "Claribel" suddenly ends and an exploratory essay about pre-, post- and Elizabethan drama and poetry begi