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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... 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 form that embodied it — the sonnet ...
... elements of this mode , besides the poetic form of sonnets in sequence , are its conventional topics and images — often of elemental powers , such as storm and ice , its pref- erence for oxymoron and antithesis , and its portrayal of ...
... elements , with an eye to forming common assumptions , is in order . Louis Montrose once observed of Renaissance literature that in it " men make women , and make themselves through the medium of women " ( 42 ) , but Petrarch ...
... element of revision . Women's revisionary strategies observed in this study include , but are not limited to , using self - reflexivity and deixis to exemplify and model females as authors and as subjects of speech 12 Introduction.
... elements related to gender and sex ; alluding to and transforming myths that involve women ; mourning women's ex- periences of loss and victimization ; revising conventional Petrar- chan tropes and images to reveal or undercut implicit ...
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 |