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 45
... tropes of male - authored Petrarchism . The epigraph above from Louise Labé , a sixteenth - century French sonneteer , illustrates these ambiguities . Her Petrarchan sonnet's couplet seems to affirm the power of her female fictive ...
... tropes of femininity to describe " bad " writ- ing ( Gilbert and Gubar , War 156-57 ) . Millay especially evoked the revulsion of modernists . One critic has argued recently that Millay's avowed feminism influenced her critical ...
... tropes , and rhetorical gestures . Petrarchism achieved fruition and fame through the 366 - poem Rime sparse of Francesco Petrarca ( 1304-74 ) , an Italian writer of the fourteenth century , better known during his own life and in the ...
... tropes can evoke and satirize Petrarchism : My mistress ' eyes are nothing like the sun— Coral is far more red than her lips red— If snow be white , why then her breasts are dun— If hairs be wires , black wires grow on her head ; I have ...
... trope on the sonnet in " The Canonization " : his offer to " build in sonnets pretty rooms " and his preference for " a well wrought urn " to " half - acre tombs " evoke the tomb as bedroom ( Donne 6-7 ) . Shakespeare also associates ...
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 |