Eve's legacy: revisions of the biblical creation myth in the poetry of Rose Auslander.

"We cannot understand the history of Eve without seeing her as a deposed Creator-Goddess, and indeed, in some sense as creation itself" writes John Phillips in Eve: The History of an Idea (3). Some of Rose Auslander's early poems, which remained unpublished during her lifetime, envision the figure of Eve along similar lines. In these poems, Auslander reinterprets the role of Eve in the creation process and ultimately arrives at a new definition of her own role as a female poet. Other writers before Auslander, particularly those influenced by the Enlightenment, have returned to Genesis and reread the transgression and fall as a positive transition from instinct to reason ...






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