Understanding Rita Dove (Understanding Contemporary British Literature) - Tapa dura

Righelato, Pat

 
9781570036378: Understanding Rita Dove (Understanding Contemporary British Literature)
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ISBN 10: 1570036373 ISBN 13: 9781570036378
Editorial: University of South Carolina Press, 2006

Sinopsis

Understanding Rita Dove serves as a critical introduction to the poetry of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who was also the first African American poet laureate of the United States. Through close readings of seven poetry collections, Pat Righelato offers detailed analyses of Rita Dove's thematic concerns and artistic development while bringing to light the musical sense of form and expression of history that permeates Dove's work. While underscoring each collection's distinctive identity, Righelato explores the continuities that link volume to volume, from the earliest chapbooks to Dove's most recent collection, ""American Smooth"". Charting Dove's evolution as a poet, Righelato begins with ""The Yellow House on the Corner"" to identify motifs of the mythical, historical, familial, and autobiographical that have become the writer's artistic capital. Dove brings African American experience to the mainstream of American poetry in ""Thomas and Beulah"" and ""On the Bus with Rosa Parks"". Righelato positions Dove as a successor to Robert Lowell in that her preoccupation with family history is exemplary of American culture. Righelato also argues for viewing Dove as markedly international. In particular Righelato illuminates Dove's affinity with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in a feminist reading of ""Mother Love"", a volume written in respectful engagement with his Sonnets to Orpheus.

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Pat Righelato teaches in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. From 1993 through 2000, she was coauthor of the review of contemporary poetry that appears annually in The Year's Work in English Studies. Righelato has also edited the Wordsworth Classics edition of Henry James's What Maisie Knew.

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University of South Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2006
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ISBN 10 
1570036373
ISBN 13 
9781570036378
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