Open Access JournalIn considerations of biography and the telling of lives, the history of helplessness and risk represented by the chorus is often overshadowed, especially in more modern contexts of literary criticism by considerations of its dramatic counterparts, the heroic parts, those of will, decision-making, and action. The poet Rita Dove, however, aims with new forms of lyric poetry to redirect our focus and favour historically more ambiguous and anti-heroic perspectives of biography and life writing. The chorus is often considered the voice of inaction, even disregard: it is a ‘perspective’ offered finally of a group that plays it safe. Traditionally resistant to both risk and change, the chorus thus generically does not make a ...
Over recent decades major social changes and rapid technological advances have occurred in the West....
Inspired by Clifford Geertz's concept, the author analyses blurred genres on the example of biograph...
This article focuses on the question of changing landscapes in Rita Dove’s poetry, and its strict co...
Throughout her career, Rita Dove’s poetic project has circled around addressing commonly-conceived w...
Dove discusses her fascination with the unseen and insignificant details of historical events and in...
The purpose of the present paper is to examine some of poems of Rita Dove in which she revisits the ...
In one of the best accounts to have emerged recently of the history of biography, Hermione Lee’s Bio...
Rita Dove served as poet laureate of the United States and consultant in poetry to the Library of Co...
Performing Biography: creating, embodying and shifting history is a practice-led research project th...
In extended readings of Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop, and Ted Hughes, Lyric Space...
Yeats was « in the middle way » when, in 1913, he turned to the seemingly pedestrian mode of autobio...
2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath and was commemorated by a flurry of ne...
2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath and was commemorated by a flurry of ne...
textIn arguing for the persona poem as a viable tradition in American literature, Elizabeth Frye rec...
The “I” in lyric poetry has not only shifted expectations throughout time, but has been called many ...
Over recent decades major social changes and rapid technological advances have occurred in the West....
Inspired by Clifford Geertz's concept, the author analyses blurred genres on the example of biograph...
This article focuses on the question of changing landscapes in Rita Dove’s poetry, and its strict co...
Throughout her career, Rita Dove’s poetic project has circled around addressing commonly-conceived w...
Dove discusses her fascination with the unseen and insignificant details of historical events and in...
The purpose of the present paper is to examine some of poems of Rita Dove in which she revisits the ...
In one of the best accounts to have emerged recently of the history of biography, Hermione Lee’s Bio...
Rita Dove served as poet laureate of the United States and consultant in poetry to the Library of Co...
Performing Biography: creating, embodying and shifting history is a practice-led research project th...
In extended readings of Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop, and Ted Hughes, Lyric Space...
Yeats was « in the middle way » when, in 1913, he turned to the seemingly pedestrian mode of autobio...
2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath and was commemorated by a flurry of ne...
2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath and was commemorated by a flurry of ne...
textIn arguing for the persona poem as a viable tradition in American literature, Elizabeth Frye rec...
The “I” in lyric poetry has not only shifted expectations throughout time, but has been called many ...
Over recent decades major social changes and rapid technological advances have occurred in the West....
Inspired by Clifford Geertz's concept, the author analyses blurred genres on the example of biograph...
This article focuses on the question of changing landscapes in Rita Dove’s poetry, and its strict co...