Seeing in the Dark The Poetry of Phyllis Webb |
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| Author:
| Butling, Pauline |
| ISBN: | 978-0-88920-271-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1997 |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $42.99 |
Book Description:
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Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural "dark" of Western thought. By blurring the axis between "light" and "dark", she redefined in positive terms women's subjectivity and sexuality, which are traditionally assigned "dark" negative values.
Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural "dark" of Western thought. By blurring the axis between "light" and "dark", she redefined in positive terms women's subjectivity and sexuality, which are traditionally assigned "dark" negative values.