Adrienne Rich : challenging authors / Karen F. Stein (University of Rhode Island, USA)
In her six-decade long writing career Adrienne Rich (1929?2012) addressed, with sagacity and probing honesty, most of the significant issues of her lifetime. A poet of finely tuned craft, she won numerous prizes, awards, and honorary degrees, and famously rejected the prestigious National Medal for...
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Sense Publishers,
[2017]
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| Series: | Critical literacy teaching series, challenging authors and genre.
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Table of Contents:
- ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: Adrienne Rich: Poet of the Oppositional Imagination""; ""A CHALLENGING AUTHOR""; ""THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK""; ""NOTES""; ""CHAPTER 2: SOURCES: A Brief Biographical Introduction to Adrienne Rich""; ""THE RICH FAMILY""; ""SCHOOL YEARS""; ""CAREER, MARRIAGE, AND MOTHERHOOD""; ""BECOMING AN ACTIVIST""; ""SELECTED LIST OF MEMORIALS AND CELEBRATIONS OF HER LIFE""; ""NOTES""
- ""CHAPTER 3: EARLY POEMS: A Change of World, the Diamond Cutters, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, Necessities of Life, Leaflets, and the Will to Change""""A CHANGE OF WORLD (1951)""; ""The American Political and Social Context""; ""Critical Reception""; ""Discussion""; ""THE DIAMOND CUTTERS (1955)""; ""The American Political and Social Context""; ""Critical Reception""; ""SNAPSHOTS OF A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW (1963)""; ""The American Political and Social Context""; ""Critical Reception""; ""Discussion""; ""NECESSITIES OF LIFE (1966)""; ""The American Political and Social Context""
- ""Critical Reception""""Discussion""; ""LEAFLETS (1969)""; ""American Political and Social Context""; ""Critical Reception""; ""Discusssion""; ""THE WILL TO CHANGE (1971)""; ""American Political and Social Context""; ""Critical Reception""; ""Discussion""; ""NOTES""; ""CHAPTER 4: LATER POEMS, PART ONE: FEMINISM 1973â#x80;#x93;1981: Diving into the Wreck, the Dream of a Common Language and a Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far""; ""REAPPROPRIATING THE HEROIC JOURNEY MYTH""; ""DIVING INTO THE WRECK (1973)""; ""American Political and Social Context""; ""Critical Reception""; ""Discussion""
- ""THE DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE (1978)""""American Political and Social Context""; ""Critical Reception""; ""Discussion""; ""A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME THIS FAR (1981)""; ""American Political and Social Context""; ""Critical Reception""; ""Discussion""; ""Evolving Feminist Theory; Expanding Inclusiveness""; ""NOTES""; ""CHAPTER 5: LATER POEMS, PART II: 1984â#x80;#x93;2012: The Fact of a Doorframe; Your Native Land, Your Life; Timeâ#x80;#x99;s Power, An Atlas of the Difficult World, Dark Fields of the Republic; Midnight Salvage; Fox; The School Among the Ruins; Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth.
- Tonight No Poetry Will Serve and Later Poems""; ""THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME: POEMS SELECTED AND NEW 1950â#x80;#x93;1984 (1984)""; ""Discussion""; ""YOUR NATIVE LAND, YOUR LIFE (1986)""; ""The American Political and Social Context""; ""Critical Reception""; ""Discussion""; ""Section I: â#x80;#x9C;Sources:â#x80;#x9D; Jewish Identity and the Continuing Search for a Home""; ""Section II: â#x80;#x9C;North American Timeâ#x80;#x9D;""; ""Section III: â#x80;#x9C;Contradictions: Tracking Poemsâ#x80;#x9D;""; ""TIMEâ#x80;#x99;S POWER: POEMS 1985â#x80;#x93;1988 (1989)""; ""The American Political and Social Context""; ""Critical Reception""; ""Discussion""
- ""AN ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD: POEMS 1988â#x80;#x93;1991 (1992)""