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The American Love Lyric After Auschwitz and Hiroshima

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  1. Barbara L. Estrin

    1. Stonehill College, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Barbara L. Estrin
    Pages 1-18

  3. Theorizing the Lyric

    • Barbara L. Estrin
    Pages 19-48

  4. “Form Gulping after Formlessness”: Petrarch’s Resistant Lauras in Stevens’s “Auroras of Autumn”

    • Barbara L. Estrin
    Pages 49-72

  5. “The Intricate Evasions of as”: History’s Duplicities in Stevens’s “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”

    • Barbara L. Estrin
    Pages 73-104

  6. “Infinite Mischief”: Robert Lowell’s Fiction of Desire in The Dolphin

    • Barbara L. Estrin
    Pages 105-128

  7. “Solid with Yearning”: Lowelling and Laureling in Day by Day

    • Barbara L. Estrin
    Pages 129-152

  8. Re-Versing the Past: Adrienne Rich’s Outrage against Order

    • Barbara L. Estrin
    Pages 153-176

  9. “At Long Last First”: Adrienne Rich’s Dark Fields and Samuel Beckett’s Colorless Cliff

    • Barbara L. Estrin
    Pages 177-206

  10. After-Words

    • Barbara L. Estrin
    Pages 207-222

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 223-253
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Citing the massive horrors of the Nazi death camps and the domestic violence behind a woman's suicide, Adrienne Rich challenges a fellow poet: 'would it relieve you to decide/Poetry doesn't make this happen?' In this provocative reassessment of the modern American love lyric, Barbara L. Estrin chronicles the return of three major American poets (Wallace Stevens in the late forties and fifties, Robert Lowell in the Seventies, and Adrienne Rich in the nineties) to the mid-century catastrophes that gave rise to such thorny questions. Through close readings of individual poems (and drawing upon the gender and genre theories of Jean François Lyotard, Judith Butler, Melanie Klien, and Jacques Lacan), Estrin counters the usual presuppositions that the lyric remains sequestered in a-political isolation, and offers a new, revisionist critique of American poetry.

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'Estrin's text is both rigorous and readable...Highly recommended.' - E.R Baer, Choice

Authors and Affiliations

  • Stonehill College, USA

    Barbara L. Estrin

About the author

BARBARA L. ESTRIN is Professor of English and Department Chair at Stonehill College. Author of The Raven and the Lark: Lost Children in English Renaissance Literature (Bucknell, 85) and Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell (Duke, 94), she has also published numerous articles on Renaissance and Modern topics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The American Love Lyric After Auschwitz and Hiroshima

  • Authors: Barbara L. Estrin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06765-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-23865-0Published: 08 February 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-63205-3Published: 08 February 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-06765-4Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 253

  • Topics: Language Teaching, Twentieth-Century Literature

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