Rhetoric and Sexuality: The Poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill

by P. Nickowitz

Overview

Rhetoric and Sexuality explores the poetry of Crane, Bishop and Merrill. Nickowitz combines a rhetorical and thematic interpretation, employing close readings and the critical lens of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis, to illustrate a new way to read American poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403968494
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/22/2006
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

PETER NICKOWITZ is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chrysalis Unbound: Poems of Origin and Initiation Anatomy of a Mother Burnt Matches, or The Art of Love Afterward