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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... erotic connotations : it is an erotic mirror , an intricately wrought vial , a reproductive space , a human body.1 Petrarch's sonnet 1 describes the poems as scattered rhymes but also as containers of a single sound : " You who hear in ...
... erotic spectacle that par- allels other metapoetic tropes . Thus in sonnet 24 , when he invites the beloved to gaze at his own image , he also invites the fair young man's gaze at his own body , " the frame , " which contains that ...
... erotic , desires of women . Except for the nonamatory sequence of Charlotte Smith , the mode always voices its concern with social desire through eroticism , however , and its erotic concerns remain paramount . Considering Petrarchism's ...
... erotic desire of Sidney for a married woman punningly named in his poems , Spen- ser's revision of Petrarchism as a discourse of married love , and Donne's use of Petrarchan oxymoron to depict divine love argue otherwise . Women ...
... erotic language as if sacralizing the erotic ; alluding to and directly revising master discourses about women — for example , undermining women's association with ma- teriality by associating men with matter , regendering irrationality ...
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 |