Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women's Language-Oriented Writing
Poetic Epistemologies explores the political and epistemological implications of women's language-oriented writing in the United States, arguing that, in its investigation of knowledge, language, and gender, this writing (re)unites art with philosophy, and both with social critique. Featuring eight contemporary and four earlier-twentieth-century poets - including Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Leslie Scalapino, Mina Loy, and Gertrude Stein - Simpson emphasizes each writer's unique contribution to...
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Poetic Epistemologies explores the political and epistemological implications of women's language-oriented writing in the United States, arguing that, in its investigation of knowledge, language, and gender, this writing (re)unites art with philosophy, and both with social critique. Featuring eight contemporary and four earlier-twentieth-century poets - including Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Leslie Scalapino, Mina Loy, and Gertrude Stein - Simpson emphasizes each writer's unique contribution to the emerging tradition of feminist epistemological poetry. Drawing upon original interviews, as well as poststructuralist and feminist theory, Poetic Epistemologies offers an informed account of one of the most vital recent developments in contemporary American poetry.BooknewsDrawing upon poststructuralist and feminist theory, as well as interviews with some of the poets discussed, Simpson (English, U. of Texas) examines the political and epistemological implications of women "language poets" and argues that "by foregrounding the processes of language . . . [the poets] explore the relations among knowledge, philosophy, and gender, thus (re)uniting art with philosophy, and both with social critique." Among the poets discussed are Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinan, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and Mei-mei Besenbrugge. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Language-Oriented Feminist Epistemology, and the Case of Lyn Hejinian1"A space that has opened": Gender and Language1Language-Oriented Feminist Epistemology7"Night Knowledge": Lyn Hejinian's Faustienne Poetics11Ch. 2"Come, words, away": Modernist Women's Invitations to Innovation31Laura Riding's Lifelong Project with Language34Inside Language as Language with Gertrude Stein40"From stepping-stone to stone of creative explorations": Mina Loy's Deconstruction of Femininity49Slipping the Knot of Language: Realism and Indeterminacy for H.D.59Ch. 3Subjects of Knowledge: Processing Gender and Sexuality Beverly Dahlen83Lori Lubeski93Laura Moriarty108Ch. 4Feminist Phenomenologies: Language as the Horizon of Encounter121Leslie Scalapino123Mei-mei Berssenbrugge134Carla Harryman145Ch. 5"Cries open to the words inside them": Textual Truth and Historical Materialism in the Poetry of Susan Howe163Interventions in History: Recovering the Feminine168Intertextuality and the Material Word180The "Visible surface of Discourse"187A Poetics of Encounter193Notes197Works Cited207Index217
\ BooknewsDrawing upon poststructuralist and feminist theory, as well as interviews with some of the poets discussed, Simpson (English, U. of Texas) examines the political and epistemological implications of women "language poets" and argues that "by foregrounding the processes of language . . . [the poets] explore the relations among knowledge, philosophy, and gender, thus (re)uniting art with philosophy, and both with social critique." Among the poets discussed are Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinan, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and Mei-mei Besenbrugge. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
