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Bridging The Distances: Women Writers Exploring The Nightmare Of Vietnam, Christina Triezenberg Jul 2015

Bridging The Distances: Women Writers Exploring The Nightmare Of Vietnam, Christina Triezenberg

Christina Triezenberg

This essay seeks to challenge the now-common practice of excluding Vietnam-era antiwar verse from contemporary literary anthologies by exploring the works produced by professional and amateur female poets who, in many cases, had witnessed the war firsthand and reflected on their experiences in verse that depicts the often harsh realities of this still-contested conflict. By exploring poetry written by women who served in a variety of capacities during the war, this essay underscores the repeated attempts made by women writers to bridge the distances between the home front and the battlefront and offers a compelling argument about the importance of …

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"Poetry", Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2014

"Poetry", Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

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Dialogue, Selection, Subversion: Three Approaches To Teaching Women Writers, Karen Gevirtz, Martha Bowden, Jonathan Sadow Dec 2012

Dialogue, Selection, Subversion: Three Approaches To Teaching Women Writers, Karen Gevirtz, Martha Bowden, Jonathan Sadow

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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Influence, Anxiety, And Erasure In Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2009

Influence, Anxiety, And Erasure In Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

This essay examines how poetic memorials by women writers written over the multiple generations of the Romantic period often seek to establish and sustain the individual writer's presence and authority as much as they aim to memorialize the memory of a lost forebear.

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Charlotte Smith, Women Poets, And The Culture Of Celebrity.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2007

Charlotte Smith, Women Poets, And The Culture Of Celebrity.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

This essay examines intertextuality in writing (poetry especially) relating to Charlotte Smith, considering in detail how Smith appeared in the writings of other women writers. Smith's legacy was to inspire and people the poetry of her admirers and that legacy is a demonstrably gendered one. Her male admirers tended to wish to rescue her reputation from oblivion, while her female followers approach her as a source of inspiration and aspire to replicate her achievements in some way in their own work.

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Narratives Of Survival, Linda Niemann Dec 1999

Narratives Of Survival, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

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