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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... 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 sub- jects ( agents of speech , action , knowledge , and desire ) as ...
... Petrarchan love sonnet sequence evolves . So arranging like sounds as to almost undermine meaning , Shakespeare simultaneously recognizes and mocks the self - absorbed poetics he exploits . The eye is both verb and subject of ...
... 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 used forms of the verb conquerer rather than the more indirect ferai grande conquête , but ...
... Petrarchan sonnet sequence by the Jacobean writer Lady Mary Wroth — some evidence of historical connection does exist.3 Despite gaps in transmission , women who wrote Petrarchan sequences knew that other women had written them . Edna St ...
... Petrarchan sonnets by women in the Renaissance . Louise Labé , a member of the sixteenth - century " École Lyonnaise , " a literary coterie , or circle , was described as a courtesan and prostitute , despite acknowledg- ment of the ...
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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 |