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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... death does not protect the reputations of early modern women sonneteers : Abdelkader Salza , editor of the 1913 edition of Gaspara Stampa's 1554 Rime , argued that Stampa was a courtesan , although contemporary evidence suggests that ...
... death , Petrarch's poems met with elements in history that made them a model for creating po- etic subjectivity through polyphony and complexity during the early modern period.10 Renaissance Petrarchism , its ideology , and the poetic ...
... deaths . On the other hand , modernist poet Marianne Moore comments on portrayals of the female body by evoking and ... death , is fiery and icy , tearful and joyous , enslaved though free ; he is wounded by the beloved's eye darts ...
... death of orgasm , " We can die by it , if not live by love , " immediately precedes his metapoetic trope on the sonnet in " The Canonization " : his offer to " build in sonnets pretty rooms " and his preference for " a well wrought urn ...
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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 |