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dc.contributor.advisorCorder, Jim W.
dc.contributor.authorHarris, Eva Jeaneen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-11T15:10:28Z
dc.date.available2019-10-11T15:10:28Z
dc.date.created1986en_US
dc.date.issued1986en_US
dc.identifieraleph-248933en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/32645
dc.description.abstractIn order to construct a new history and tradition for women, Adrienne Rich must destroy the myth and refute the lies of former times and former writers. The deconstruction of male versions of history and the construction of new histories based on the experience of women is a difficult one and raises many questions about Rich's poetry. How does a radical lesbian/feminist bent on nothing less than the total destruction of patriarchal traditions and structures generate an ethos with enough authority, passion and seriousness to convince an unwilling audience? Adrienne Rich has created many selves through her texts and from these texts and selves has emerged a constantly evolving, ever-changing ethos. It is an ethos that creates and authenticates itself by engaging in a internal dialogue regarding language, poetic tradition, linguistics, symbolic poetic landscapes, authority and history. This internal dialogue becomes externalized in Rich's poetry and manifests itself as a feminizing influence. The evolution of the feminizing ethos, the strategies used to bring it into existence and its effect on the styles, structures and inventive worlds of the poet are the central concern of this dissertation.
dc.format.extentii, 130 leavesen_US
dc.format.mediumFormat: Printen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTexas Christian University dissertationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAS38.H3681en_US
dc.subject.lcshRich, Adrienne Cecile--Criticism and interpretationen_US
dc.subject.lcshAmerican poetry--20th century--History and criticismen_US
dc.titleThe dark edge of the clever tongue: the feminizing ethos in Adrienne Rich's poetryen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.departmentDepartment of English
etd.degree.levelDoctoral
local.collegeAddRan College of Liberal Arts
local.departmentEnglish
local.academicunitDepartment of English
dc.type.genreDissertation
local.subjectareaEnglish
dc.identifier.callnumberMain Stacks: AS38 .H3681 (Regular Loan)
dc.identifier.callnumberSpecial Collections: AS38 .H3681 (Non-Circulating)
etd.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
etd.degree.grantorTexas Christian University


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