Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries: On Sappho's Website (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527516724)

This book rereads and re-examines the important tradition of women poets and theorists who have both critically and creatively engaged with the study and reconsideration of the role played by myths in our Western society, assessing their impact in different eras. Such poets and theorists as H.D., Laura Riding, Denise Levertov, Margaret Atwood, Anne Carson, and Natalie Diaz have responded to myths, either by recreating, rewriting, and interrogating the power of myths to articulate our reality, or by creating and â oebegetting⠝ new myths for the present. In order to interrogate whether myths throughout the 20th and 21st centuries can act as catalysts for new ideas and imaginative re-creations, this volume travels the path of essential works of poetry by women.

Author: Rosa Burillo
ISBN-10: 1527516725
ISBN-13: 9781527516724
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2018
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.80d