Bringing a fresh approach to the field, this study shows that poems by women do not always subvert the mainstream, the media, and the marketplace. With explorations of both Hollywood films, household advertising, children's books, mass magazines, and tabloid journalism as well as the poetry of H.D., Stevie Smith, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Ai, and Carol Ann Duffy, Marsha Bryant assesses the counterintuitive innovations that these poets fashion through popular culture. Bridging feminist and cultural studies, this book analyzes the ways in which British and American women poets often operate as cultural insiders, consuming music, movies, and magazines through poems that do not always conform to appropriation or critique.
| ISBN | 0230609414 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780230609419
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 492 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Series title | Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 236 | | Publication date | 25 Nov 2011 | | Width (mm) | 160 | | DEWEY | 821.91099287 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate | | Pages | 252 | |
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CinemaScope Poetics: H.D., Helen, and Historical Epic Film The Poetry Picture Book: Stevie Smith and Children's Culture Uneasy Alliances: Gwendolyn Brooks, Ebony, and Whiteness Everyday Ariel: Sylvia Plath and the Dream Kitchen Killer Lyrics: Ai, Carol Ann Duffy, and the Media Monologue Key Notes: Manifesto for Women's Poetry Studies
""Women's Poetry and Popular Culture" is a fascinating investigation of the place of women's poetry in contemporary culture. In Bryant's far-reaching study, 'women's poetry' is not just a grouping of poems, but a field, a market, and a cultural conception within and against which individual poets must write. Bryant's style is edgy, her claims provocative, and her reading of poems compelling. She asks 'what a new women's poetry studies would look like' and insists it must be "panoramic" like the poetry itself, and like this book."--Karen Jackson Ford, professor of English, University of Oregon
""Women's Poetry and Popular Culture" is an invigorating tonic which disturbs deep-seated assumptions about women's poetry as necessarily outside and in opposition to culture, and about poetry, generally, as elite and marginal. With brash intelligence and deep care for how poems work, Bryant demonstrates the lively, dynamic interplay between contemporary women's poetry and the rich, provocative domain of popular culture."-- Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park
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