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Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
How do poems remember? What kinds of memory do poems register that factual, chronological accounts of the past are oblivious to? What is the self created by such practices of memory? To answer these questions, Uta Gosmann introduces a general theory of “poetic memory,” a manner of thinking that eschews simple-minded notions of linearity and accuracy in order to uncover the human subject’s intricate relationship to a past that it cannot fully know. Gosmann explores poetic memory in the work of Sylvia Plath, Susan Howe, Ellen Hinsey, and Louise Glück, four American poets writing in a wide range of ... Read more
How do poems remember? What kinds of memory do poems register that factual, chronological accounts of the past are oblivious to? What is the self created by such practices of memory? To answer these questions, Uta Gosmann introduces a general theory of “poetic memory,” a manner of thinking that eschews simple-minded notions of linearity and accuracy in order to uncover the human subject’s intricate relationship to a past that it cannot fully know. Gosmann explores poetic memory in the work of Sylvia Plath, Susan Howe, Ellen Hinsey, and Louise Glück, four American poets writing in a wide range of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611470369
SKU
V9781611470369
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About Uta Gosmann
Uta Gosmann received her Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Bonn and the University of Paris 7—Denis Diderot. She was awarded fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for graduate study at SUNY Buffalo and Yale University. Her critical writing and translations of poetry have appeared in publications in Europe and the United States, including Common Knowledge ... Read more
Reviews for Poetic Memory
Currently a psychoanalyst in training in the US, Gosmann has a PhD in American literature. Here she studies four poets, two well known (Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück), two less familiar (Susan Howe and Ellen Hinsey). She interviewed Glück, Howe, and Hinsey in preparation for writing this study. Gosmann situates her analysis in memory studies, a field currently prevalent in academic ... Read more