Women versed in myth : essays on modern poets /
edited by Colleen S. Harris and Valerie Estelle Frankel.
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction ; Part I: Classical Myth Subverted; Sap Rising Bodies Figured as Treesin H.D., Atwood and Glück (Wendy Whelan-Stewart); Mythotropism: A Psychology of Writing (to) Myth (Coco Owen); Burying Helen: H.D.'s Anthropoetics (Lisa D. Simon); The Needed Underworld: Modern Reactions to Symbolic Death (Rachel McCoppin); From Persephone's Lips: Three Retellings by Louise Glück (Valerie Estelle Frankel); Reimagining Myth and the Maternal with Ruth Fainlight, Margaret Atwood and Katie Donovan (Charlotte Beyer). "Out of the Ash I Rise": Sylvia Plath and the Rebirth of the Woman Poet (Kate Williams)Part II: Outside the Greek Tradition-From the Near East to the Aztecs; Coatlicue and Chicana Grrl Power (Sarah R. Wakefield); Conduits and Conjurers: Heroic Characters, Sacred Nature and Social Order in Kelly Norman Ellis, Nikky Finney and Patricia Smith (Janine Harrison); When Pele Blows: Trask's Repositioning of the Hawaiian Creation Epic (James A. Wren); Mythic Reenactment from Sandra Alcosser and Pattiann Rogers (Tami Haaland); Utilizing and Disrupting Legends in Indian Poetry (Pramila Venkateswaran). The Mything Link: The Feminine Voice in the Shifting Australian National Myth (Phil Fitzsimmons)Sister of Life, Sister of Death: Fluid Roles in Catherynne M. Valente's The Descent of Inanna (Valerie Estelle Frankel); Part III: Within the Classroom; Female Icons in Popular Culture: A Semiotic Approach to Teaching (Elizabeth Johnston); La Llorona and La Malinche in Re-Vision: Chicana Poets Countering Traditions and Claiming Voice (Leigh C. Johnson); Ancient Voices: Bringing the Greeks to Life for Students K-12 (Kate Hovey). Taking Pomegranates from Strangers: Contemporary Female Poets on Persephone (Sarah R. Wakefield)Part IV: Ancestry, the Personal and Self-Writing Women; Family Lore, Suffragist Ancestors and the Scrapbook of a 19th Century Poetess; or, How to Find a Topic for the Dissertation (Laura Madeline Wiseman); Creating Light: Myth-making of Lucille Clifton (Glenis Redmond); Penelope at the Loom: Mythology and the Modern Workplace in the Poetry of 21st Century Women (Kristin Berkey-Abbott); In My Own Image: Crafting Poetry About the Sacred Feminine (Paula J. Vaughan). Telling a Truth versus Telling the Truth: On Writing from Personal History (Jenny Sadre-Orafai)They're Not Mermaids, Really: Shame and Re-visioning the Mermaid Mythos (Jennifer Jean); Calling the Goddess (Janine Canan); About the Contributors ; Index.
"With sections on teaching and modern writing, this collection of new essays examines how modern female poets-including H.D., Louise Gluck, Ruth Fainlight, Rita Dove, Sylvia Plate and others-have subverted classical expectations in interpreting such legends as Persephone, Helen and Eurydice"--Back cover.