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. |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 41
... men and women have different modes of literary representation , different defini- tions of literary production ? Do such differences mean that dis- tinctive male- ( or female- ) authored images of women ix Ad Feminam: Women and Literature.
... differences between men and women essential or accidental , biologically de- termined or culturally constructed ... difference and to understand the dynamics that have shaped the accomplishments of literary women . As a consequence of ...
... differences of social and politi- cal status , implying that these poets formulate and express the so- cial and political , as well as the erotic , desires of women . Except for the nonamatory sequence of Charlotte Smith , the mode ...
... differences between the Petrarchism of women and that of Petrarch . While men use some of the same strategies in revising Petrarchism , women voice these strategies in the sonnet sequences studied here under the sign of female discourse ...
... differences be- tween the powers of the genders by presenting male beloveds as poets ; and more . I do not claim to have discovered all of these strategies , some of which are explored in articles and books focus- ing on single authors ...
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 |