Hi everyone,
As part of my English Literature coursework, I am comparing and contrasting three texts to analyse evidence of the passivity of women. I have been given 'Othello' by Shakespeare and 'The Woman Who Walked Into Doors' by Roddy Doyle as my two set texts and I have decided to use some Bukowski's work as my third text. My original idea was to use a certain combination of Buk's poetry that I felt was relevant to my specific topic. I have 'The Pleasures of the Damned' collection and I was willing to work with that but apparently exam regulations require me to find a smaller collection to work with, so here's my question: can anybody suggest to me a collection of Buk's poetry that is related to women/sex explicitly? Most of the poems should reference these two topics in some way or another. The poems don't have to refer to the passivity of women as Buk is my contrasting text. If all else fails and I can't find a suitable collection then I will just have to use 'Women', one of my favourite books, as a back up. However my tutor feels that using some suitable poetry would add an element of challenge to my task and I'm always up for that.
Thank you,
Em
As part of my English Literature coursework, I am comparing and contrasting three texts to analyse evidence of the passivity of women. I have been given 'Othello' by Shakespeare and 'The Woman Who Walked Into Doors' by Roddy Doyle as my two set texts and I have decided to use some Bukowski's work as my third text. My original idea was to use a certain combination of Buk's poetry that I felt was relevant to my specific topic. I have 'The Pleasures of the Damned' collection and I was willing to work with that but apparently exam regulations require me to find a smaller collection to work with, so here's my question: can anybody suggest to me a collection of Buk's poetry that is related to women/sex explicitly? Most of the poems should reference these two topics in some way or another. The poems don't have to refer to the passivity of women as Buk is my contrasting text. If all else fails and I can't find a suitable collection then I will just have to use 'Women', one of my favourite books, as a back up. However my tutor feels that using some suitable poetry would add an element of challenge to my task and I'm always up for that.
Thank you,
Em