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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... suggests that 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 ...
... suggest a con- struct of the erotic woman poet that helped to authorize her writ- ing and publication — an idea I pursue ... suggests that she was a virtuosa , or professional musician . Women sonneteers after the Renaissance experienced ...
... suggests in subtly identifying images of explo- ration and war with the lady's segmented body , the Petrarchan mode's association with eroticism and its cross - historical appeal offer fertile ground for exploring gender in its cultural ...
... suggests erotic self - display and the autoerotic pleasure of polishing and forming a self : " O flame , O roses ... suggesting rigid bounda- ries and firm containment . It is thus both womb and tomb , both memorial and mother ...
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Índice
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 |