Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and PetrarchismSIU Press, 2000 - 290 páginas "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her Sonnets from the Portuguese.Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism proposes that we attend to the ways that women poets from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries have both echoed and transformed the literary and erotic conventions that strongly influenced their fates as women, wives, and lovers. Mary B. Moore analyzes and provides context for love sonnet sequences by Italian, French, English, and American women poets in the light of current knowledge concerning attitudes towards women at the time they wrote. Through close readings of the poems combined with theory and criticism about constructs of women, historical events, and biographical contexts, Moore reveals patterns of revision among women poets that shed further light on the poets themselves, on Petrarchism as a convention, and on ideas about women. She focuses on Petrarchan sonnet sequences by women because the poems serve both as works of art and as documents that illuminate the range and limitations of female roles as erotic subjects (agents of speech, action, knowledge, and desire) as well as their more usual roles as erotic objects. Combining theory with close reading, Moore enhances the value of many generally neglected poems by women. After a thorough discussion of the Petrarchan sonnet tradition, she analyzes the work of Gaspara Stampa, Louise Labé, Lady Mary Wroth, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. |
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... Louise Labé and the Spectacle of Sappho 94 5 The Labyrinth of Style 125 Lady Mary Wroth and the Idea of Petrarchism 6 Charlotte Smith and the Echoes of Melancholy ISI 7 Indeterminacy and the Economy of Love in Sonnets from the ...
... Louise Schleiner have read manuscripts and provided guidance , cautionary words , and invaluable comments over the course of several years . Prof. Waddington's learning and unerring judgment made him an invaluable resource to me , while ...
... Louise Labé from Louise Labé Œuvres completes : Son- nets , elegies , débat de folie et d'amour poesies , ed . and pref . Francois Rigolot reprinted by permission of Flammarion Editions . Poems by Charlotte Smith from The Poems of ...
... Louise Labé , sonnet 6 Shakespeare's sonnet 104 presents the fair young man as he was " when first your eye I eyde , " a line whose puns mirror the visual model of erotic desire that the Petrarchan love sonnet sequence evolves . So ...
... Louise Labé , a sixteenth - century French sonneteer , illustrates these ambiguities . Her Petrarchan sonnet's couplet seems to affirm the power of her female fictive poet's eyes . It does so in a complex way , however . Labé might have ...
Conteúdo
The Complication of Subjectivity | 27 |
Body of Light Body of Matter | 58 |
Eating Desire and Embracing Error | 94 |
The Labyrinth of Style | 125 |
Charlotte Smith and the Echoes of Melancholy | 151 |
A Fitting Form | 194 |
Conclusion | 230 |
Notes | 245 |
Works Cited and Consulted | 271 |