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Loading... Erotic reckonings : mastery and apprenticeship in the work of poets and loversby Thomas Simmons
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)811.5209353Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1900-1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |