The Case of the Forgotten Electra: Pickthall's Apostrophes and Feminine Poetics
Abstract
Marjorie Pickthall's verse might best be described as an intense apostrophe to literary beauty: a turning away from the trial to address the judges in impassioned language that an audience may only overhear. Her poems draw upon a body of literary precedents in order to construct a coherent and fantastic defence against unsatisfied desire and what she perceived to be a fundamental incoherence in modern life. Pickthall's lyrics represent a species of early modern poetry which developed in Canada before the New Provinces poets privileged irony over beauty and truth.Published
1987-01-01
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Kizuk, A. (1987). The Case of the Forgotten Electra: Pickthall’s Apostrophes and Feminine Poetics. Studies in Canadian Literature, 12(1). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/8054
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