‘By What Sign / Are You Walking?’: The Poetry of Judith Rodriguez

Abstract

Argues that Rodriguez's poetry is defined by a 'double debt: both to Romanticism's prophetic, empowered rhetoric, and to Modernism's growing doubts about the limits and efficacy of that power. For Rodriguez, second wave feminism can be seen to complicate further this double debt.'

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Published 1 October 1997 in Volume 18 No. 2. Subjects: Feminism, Gender - Literary portrayal, Modernism, Poetic techniques, Poetry, Poets, Romanticism.

Cite as: McCredden, Lyn. ‘‘By What Sign / Are You Walking?’: The Poetry of Judith Rodriguez.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 1997, doi: 10.20314/als.6d377ba8e7.