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Seeing in the Dark
Pauline Butling
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Paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural ""dark"" of Western thought. By blurring the axis between ""light"" and ""dark,"" she redefined in positive terms women's subjectivity and sexuality, which are traditionally assigned ""dark"" negative values.
Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural ""dark"" of Western thought. By blurring the axis between ""light"" and ""dark,"" she redefined in positive terms women's subjectivity and sexuality, which are traditionally assigned ""dark"" negative values.
Seeing in the Dark includes perceptive discussions on a number of Webb's collections, specifically Naked Poems, Wilson's Bowl, Water and Light and Hanging Fire. Butling shows how Webb uses strategies of subversion, reversal and re-vision of prevailing traditions and tropes to facilitate ""seeing in the dark."" She also provides a fascinating analysis of Webb criticism - tracing ... Read more
Pauline Butling offers important new ways of reading one of Canada's finest poets. Seeing in the Dark is essential introductory material for the general reader and provides provocative penetrating analysis for literary scholars.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9780889202719
SKU
V9780889202719
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About Pauline Butling
Pauline Butling teaches Canadian literature and cultural studies in the Humanities Department at the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Reviews for Seeing in the Dark
``[This] ... is one of the most important studies of contemporary Canadian poetry to appear in recent years. Phyllis Webb has long deserved such a careful, innovative, and challenging critique.... This is a necessary book.''
Douglas Barbour ``Butling's careful readings of Webb's poems are nuanced and perceptive, and her argument that Webb's poetics enact a feminist politics of social ... Read more
Douglas Barbour ``Butling's careful readings of Webb's poems are nuanced and perceptive, and her argument that Webb's poetics enact a feminist politics of social ... Read more