Seeking Promethean Woman in the New Poetry: Stein, Vallejo, Artaud, Rimbaud, Eliot, Jacob

Examining images of woman hidden in hermetic modern poetry, this work surmounts subterfuges of style to find problematic female archetypes that illumine today’s sex-role problems. Wight’s analysis of difficult material offers stimulation to literary critics and theorists, to poets, to teachers, to feminists, and to everyone interested in the mysterious processes of human thought and art.