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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Book Title: Rhetoric and Sexuality
Book Subtitle: The Poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill
Authors: Peter Nickowitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-73463-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6849-4Published: 22 February 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 178
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Literary History, Applied Linguistics

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Chrysalis Unbound: Poems of Origin and Initiation

Anatomy of a Mother

Burnt Matches, or the Art of Love

Afterword

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