Erotic Reckonings explores the problem of tradition and authority in the lives and work of three pairs of twentieth-century American poets - Ezra Pound and H.D., Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis, and Louise Bogan and Theodore Roethke. Drawing on classical and feminist psychoanalytic theory, Thomas Simmons argues that mentor-apprentice relationships are inescapably erotic, though not necessarily sexual. Pound and Winters manifest profound conflicts between allegiance to a tradition of knowledge and allegiance to apprentices; ...
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Erotic Reckonings explores the problem of tradition and authority in the lives and work of three pairs of twentieth-century American poets - Ezra Pound and H.D., Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis, and Louise Bogan and Theodore Roethke. Drawing on classical and feminist psychoanalytic theory, Thomas Simmons argues that mentor-apprentice relationships are inescapably erotic, though not necessarily sexual. Pound and Winters manifest profound conflicts between allegiance to a tradition of knowledge and allegiance to apprentices; both tend to master the apprentice, to bind her to a body of knowledge. In contrast, Bogan and Roethke display a different approach: wary of the value of a tradition of knowledge, Bogan insists that Roethke represent himself as a person of authority. She plays for him a role of sustained reciprocity, rather than of domination.
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8vo, pp. xiii, 227. Notes, index. As new in dj. The problem of tradition and authority in the lives and work of three pairs of 20th century American poets: Pound and H.D., Winters and Lewis, and Bogan and Roethke.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 227 pages. "This book explores the problem of tradition and authority in the lives and work of three pairs of twentieth-century American poets-Ezra Pound and H.D., Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis, and Louise Bogan and Thedore Roethke." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.
