William Carlos Williams’ “The Young Housewife”: A Postcritical Reading vis-à-vis Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree

Using the framework of Rita Felski in her 2015 book The Limits of Critique, this essay offers a postcritical analysis of William Carlos Williams’ 1915 poem “The Young Housewife.” Its intention is to show how Williams’ poem or any poem can be approached through a variety of critical lenses, but that...

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Published in:Journal of adolescent & adult literacy 2022-07, Vol.66 (1), p.46-49
Main Author: Norton, Sue
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Childrens picture books
Comparative Analysis
Critical Reading
Criticism
DISCUSSION
feminism
Homemakers
Housewives
Jewish literature
Literary criticism
Literature
Marxism
new criticism
Poetry
postcritical reading
Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree
Silverstein, Shel
social justice
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)
“The Young Housewife” by William Carlos Williams
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