Adrienne Rich Essay

Detached Viewpoint: The Representation of Men in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry Every time a writer is called a “writer’s writer,” there is a certain sense of undervaluation by the readers, as if only fellow writers could truly appreciate the author’s art. Not only was Elizabeth Bishop often described as a “poet’s poet,” but John Ashbery in his review of Bishop’s Collected Poems even called her a “writer’s writer’s writer.” And yet she managed to rivet the attention of the broader audience, as…

In the epilogue of Michael Bronksi’s A Queer History of the United States (2011), Bonski asserts that the recent battle for marriage equality may in fact undermine the LGBT movement’s original intention to “fight to eliminate or limit the state’s involvement in consensual relationships” by insisting that it forces queer people take on the classic American lie: we are “just like you” (pp. 240, 241). Implicit in this claim is the belief that most queer people are not interested in establishing…

Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) is the first selected woman poet in this study. Writing in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, Mew’s poetry straddles the fin de siècle and early modernist periods. Thus Victorian and feminist approaches are used in examining her poetry. Mew's poetic voice is an integral link in women's writing from the end of the nineteenth century into the first two decades of the twentieth century in that it enables contemporary…

《典型的美国佬》 Other Novelists John Updike (1932-2009) prolific writer famous for his rabbit series novels and a novella 多产作家，以兔子五部曲闻名 Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955) John Updike (1932-2009) Rabbit, Run (1960) Rabbit, Redux (1971) Rabbit Is Rich (1981)获普利策奖、全国图书奖、全国书评家协会奖 Rabbit at Rest (1990)获普利策奖 Rabbit Remembered (2001), novella Contemporary Poetry Beat Generation poetry Confessional poetry Other poets Beat Generation poetry Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Howl (1956) Lawrence…

Chapter 1 Introduction Jonathan Earl Franzen, an American writer, is one of the most acclaimed novelist and essayist of today’s era. Born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959 this prolific writer has contributed greatly in the industry of literature by producing number of creative pieces of work throughout his writing career. Franzen was brought up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1981 he graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in German. His…

Jane Eyre has a suggestive name. Eyre might refer to “heir” but she is the heir of nothing, at least in the beginning of the novel; it also may suggest “ire” that Jane has inside her. The novel has an angry tone to it, almost as if Brontë had realized the roles and circumstances of women around her and depicted it in Jane Eyre: imprisonment, orphan, starvation, anger turned to madness. According to Elizabeth Rigby, Jane Eyre revolves around the personification of an unregenerate and…