Title: Not Drowning But Waving: Stevie Smith and the Language of the Lake
Abstract: queen of contradictions, the modern British poet Stevie Smith remains both in and out of the English canon, without easy resolutions for the dichotomies that have emerged around her. Ironically, perhaps, her plea to remain exempt from the evaluations and judgments prevalent in the oft-anthologized No Categories! does little to keep readers and critics from subjecting her to any number of diametrically opposed subject positions. Sanford Sternlicht, writing In Search of Stevie Smith, outlines some of the binaries that bind her:
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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