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Rhetoric and Sexuality

The Poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill

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  1. Peter Nickowitz
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Nickowitz
    Pages 1-9

  3. Chrysalis Unbound: Poems of Origin and Initiation

    • Peter Nickowitz
    Pages 11-51

  4. Anatomy of a Mother

    • Peter Nickowitz
    Pages 53-100

  5. Burnt Matches, or the Art of Love

    • Peter Nickowitz
    Pages 101-143

  6. Afterword

    • Peter Nickowitz
    Pages 145-150

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 151-178
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Rhetoric and Sexuality explores the poetry of Crane, Bishop and Merrill. Nickowitz combines a rhetorical and thematic interpretation, employing close readings and the critical lens of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis, to illustrate a new way to read American poetry.

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PETER NICKOWITZ is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, USA.

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