The Birth-Mark

A stimulating examination of early American literatureSusan Howe approaches early American literature as pet and critic, blending...
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The Birth-Mark by Howe, Susan

The Birth-Mark

CHF 43.24

The Birth-Mark

CHF 43.24
Author: Susan Howe
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A stimulating examination of early American literature

Susan Howe approaches early American literature as pet and critic, blending scholarship with passionate commitment and unique view of her subject. The Birth-mark traces the collusive relationships among tradition, the constitution of critical editions, literary history and criticism, the institutionalized roles of poetry and prose, and the status of gender. Through an examination of the texts and editorial histories of Thomas Shepard's conversion narratives, the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, and the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange and lawless author confronts interpreters and editors eager for settlement. In a concluding interview, Howe comments on her approach and recounts some the crucial biographical events that sparked her interest in early American literature.

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 04/01/1993
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.02w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780819562630

About the Author
SUSAN HOWE is a poet and Professor of English at the State University of New York- Buffalo. She is also the author of numerous critical essays including My Emily Dickinson (1985), and most recently "Sorting Facts; or, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker" in Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film (Wesleyan, 1996), edited by Charles Watten. Her books of poetry include Singularities (1990), The Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems (1989), Articulation of Sound Forms in Time (1987), and most recently, Frame Structures: Early poems, 1974-1979 (1995).

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