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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... whatever sanctions men's erotic poems transgressed must have been less effective or systematic or pervasive than those aligned against women's erotic discourse in the early modern period . While sonnet sequences Introduction 3.
Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism Mary B. Moore. discourse in the early modern period . While sonnet sequences by women ... discourse remained problematic . Angela Leighton , a contemporary scholar of Victorian poetry , has argued that 4 ...
... discourse as an influence on behavior ; love sonnets , and thus the view of love they imply , are the back- and foreground for the action of the play and its out- come , the lovers ' deaths . On the other hand , modernist poet Marianne ...
... discourse — subject / object , male / female , self / other— trading roles in ways that seem to undercut his speaker's agency and power . Laura herself , furthermore , has both beneficent and threatening aspects that evoke complex and ...
... discourse of married love , and Donne's use of Petrarchan oxymoron to depict divine love argue otherwise . Women Petrarchists ' complexity , however , differs from that of their male contemporaries . While this study shows that both ...
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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 |