In Lyric Contingencies Margaret Dickie brings Wallace Stevens and Emily Dickinson together to explore the ways in which the lyric genre is eccentric to, even disruptive of, the Emersonian tradition that has shaped American literary history. Dickie contends that although Stevens and Dickinson represent different moments of cultural crises, different genders, and different and private lives, they faced similar problems of expression and similar formal and cultural restraints in their devotion to the lyric genre. Dickie considers those elements of the lyric that set it apart from both prose and narrative poetry: its speaker, its insistence on artifice, and its relation to an audience. By concentrating on these, she examines the radically experimental ways in which Dickinson and Stevens used the genre to question cultural certainties of gender, language, and the nature of the individual.
In an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret Dickie examines the poetry of three preeminent women writers_Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich_investigating the ways in which each attempts to forge a poetic voice capable of expr
Joanne Dickie moved from New South Wales to Tasmania in December 2004. Completing a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) Journalism in 1988, Joanne spent over a decade in the media industry working as a journalist, public relations consultant and desktop publisher working for various government and private businesses before establishing her own writing and design business in Sydney. She then returned to tertiary studies and after completing a Graduate Diploma in Education with Distinction taught English, Media Studies and Film Appreciation to high school students in NSW and Tasmania. She has also completed a Masters Degree in Professional Writing.Since moving to Tasmania Joanne has been pursuing her love of poetry. This is her first published collection.
This first collection of Margaret Mead's personal correspondence creates a vivid and intimate portrait of an American icon--with a foreword by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of a dangerous voyage out from France, a famous children’s writer writes home about the fun of canoeing, and a German general’s wife describes habitant customs. All demonstrate how women’s experiences not only shared, but helped shape this new country.
Why would a mother make her own child feel worthless and unwanted? All her life, Little Margaret had wondered why her mother didn't love her. No matter how hard she tried, she could never please her. The harder she tried, the worse things got. She never knew that there was deep-rooted reason for her animosity a secret that Little Margaret mustn't know and didn't know until it's too late. When she begins to probe the past, a harsh discovery makes her realize that no secret is ever worth its price What is this secret that you Don't Tell Little Margaret? Please also visit www.webreeds.com
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