Document Type
Book Chapter
Department
English (Scripps)
Publication Date
1996
Disciplines
American Literature | Literature in English, North America | Women's Studies
Abstract
In this chapter, Walker examines questions concerning renewed scholarly interest in Edna St. Vincent Millay toward the end of the twentieth century. Specifically, these questions center on whether to rethink the principles of establishing the canon of American literature--indeed, whether the poet changes literary fashions or literary fashions change the poet. Walker's answer is the latter, and her essay examines how Millay is different received through three different periods: antimodern, modern, and postmodern. She argues that whether a poet becomes central to literary study has less to do with the "quality" of the poetry than with complex cultural factors that allow us to situate poems in familiar and resonate contexts.
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Recommended Citation
Walker, Cheryl. "Antimodern, Modern, and Postmodern Millay: Contexts of Revaluation." Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers. Eds. Margaret Dickie and Thomas Travisano. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 170-188.
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