Barbara Wiedemann

Barbara Wiedemann

Barbara Wiedemann reads at the 2009 Montgomery Bookfest
Born October 30, 1945(1945-10-30)
Somerville, New Jersey

Barbara Wiedemann is an American poet and currently a professor of literature at Auburn Montgomery. Wiedemann, who received her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida, has published one book of poetry, besides a number of poems in literary journals. She is the author of one monograph and co-editor of two critical studies.

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Poetry

Wiedemann has published poems in a number of journals, including Kaleidoscope, Kerf, Poetry Motel, and Acorn. Most recently, a collection of her poetry entitled Half-Life of Love was published by Finishing Line Press.

Critical studies

Wiedemann has authored a critical study, Josephine Herbst’s Short Fiction: A Window to Her Life and Times, on the work of Josephine Herbst, the radical American writer, and is the co-editor of two books, Short Fiction: A Critical Companion and "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem. The latter is the first edition of a 1632 autobiographical poem, 110 lines long, by a woman called Martha Moulsworth—one of the first such poems in English, which was included in the seventh edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature.[1]

Her essay on Hélène Cixous and Marguerite Duras, "The Search for an Authentic Voice: Hélène Cixous and Marguerite Duras," was reprinted in the collection Marguerite Duras Lives On.[2]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Martha Moulsworth, "The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow," in Abrams, M.H. (2000). Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th ed., Vol. 1. New York: Norton. pp. 1552–55, A–30. ISBN 9780393975666. 
  2. ^ Ricouart, Janine (1998). Marguerite Duras Lives On. UP of America. ISBN 9780761812067. http://books.google.com/?id=EHtcAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Search+for+an+Authentic+Voice:+Helene+Cixous+and+Marguerite+Duras&dq=The+Search+for+an+Authentic+Voice:+Helene+Cixous+and+Marguerite+Duras. 
  3. ^ Reviewed in Latham, Irene (September 2008). "Rev. of Barbara Wiedemann, Half-Life of Love". Alabama Writers' Forum. http://www.writersforum.org/books/book.aspx?ID=144. Retrieved 2009-04-28. 
  4. ^ For reviews of the book, see Norbrook, David (December 1994). "Rev. of "My Name was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem". Notes and Queries (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 41 (4): 566.  and Haslem, Lori Schroeder (Spring 1996). "Rev of "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem". Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1): 170. 

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