That great sanity : critical essays on May Sarton /
This collection of original essays represents the first book-length consideration of May Sarton's contributions to American literature and culture. In the course of her long and prolific career, Sarton has published nearly fifty books, yet has largely been ignored by book reviewers and others i...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[1992], ©1992
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Table of Contents:
- Poets and friends: the correspondence of May Sarton and Louise Bogan / Elizabeth Evans
- May sarton's lyric strategy / William Drake
- Rebirthing genesis: May Sarton and contemporary feminist fiction / Marilyn R. Mumford
- The artist and her domestic muse: May Sarton, Miriam Schapiro, Audrey Flack / Janet Catherine Berlo
- "The subtle exchange of a life": May Sarton's feminist aesthetics / Susan Swartzlander
- "Toward durable fire": the solitary muse of May Sarton / Mary K. DeShazer
- "Seeing with fresh eyes": a study of May Sarton's Journals / Jeanne Braham
- "To say radical things gently": art and lesbianism in Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing / K. Graehme Hall
- Double discourse: Gilman, Sarton, and the subversive text / Barbara Bair
- Saving the audience: patterns of reader response to May Sarton's work / Carol Virginia Pohli
- A decade of creativity and critical reception: a May Sarton bibliography / Nancy S. Weyant
- Introduction: In Our Mothers' Gardens / Maureen Teresa McCarthy
- Predecessors and Contemporaries Poets and Friends: The Correspondence of May Sarton and Louise Bogan / Elizabeth Evans. May Sarton's Lyric Strategy / William Drake. Rebirthing Genesis: May Sarton and Contemporary Feminist Fiction / Marilyn R. Mumford
- Art and Artist. The Artist and Her Domestic Muse: May Sarton, Miriam Schapiro, Audrey Flack / Janet Catherine Berlo. "The Subtle Exchange of a Life": May Sarton's Feminist Aesthetics / Susan Swartzlander. "Toward Durable Fire": The Solitary Muse of May Sarton / Mary K. DeShazer
- Self and Subtexts. "Seeing with Fresh Eyes": A Study of May Sarton's Journals / Jeanne Braham. "To Say Radical Things Gently": Art and Lesbianism in Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing / K. Graehme Hall. Double Discourse: Gilman, Sarton, and the Subversive Text / Barbara Bair
- Readers and Responses. Saving the Audience: Patterns of Reader Response to May Sarton's Work / Carol Virginia Pohli. A Decade of Creativity and Critical Reception: A May Sarton Bibliography / Nancy S. Weyant
- A Selected Bibliography of Works by May Sarton.