Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and MarvellDuke University Press, 15/12/1994 - 345 páginas How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors—Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell—the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman, Laura, whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held that, in objectifying Laura, these male-authored texts deny the imaginative, intellectual, and physical life of the woman they idealize. In Laura, Barbara L. Estrin counters this traditional view by focusing not on the generative powers of the male poet, but on the subjectivity of the imagined woman and the imaginative space of the poems she occupies. Through close readings of the Rime sparse and the works of Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell, Estrin uncovers three Lauras: Laura-Daphne, who denies sexuality; Laura-Eve, who returns the poet’s love; and Laura-Mercury, who reinvents her own life. Estrin claims that in these three guises Laura subverts both genre and gender, thereby introducing multiple desires into the many layers of the poems. Drawing upon genre and gender theories advanced by Jean-François Lyotard and Judith Butler to situate female desire in the poem’s framework, Estrin shows how genre and gender in the Petrarchan tradition work together to undermine the stability of these very concepts. Estrin’s Laura constitutes a fundamental reconceptualization of the Petrarchan tradition and contributes greatly to the postmodern reassessment of the Renaissance period. In its descriptions of how early modern poets formulate questions about sexuality, society and poetry, Laura will appeal to scholars of the English and Italian Renaissance, of gender studies, and of literary criticism and theory generally. |
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... critical acumen of Marie Blanchard and Pam Morrison of the Duke editorial staff provided many creative emendations . Tess Hoffmann , Anne and Ernst Lieben , and Ella and Fred Scheuer are remembered in these pages . Clara and Abe Estrin ...
... critical acumen of Marie Blanchard and Pam Morrison of the Duke editorial staff provided many creative emendations . Tess Hoffmann , Anne and Ernst Lieben , and Ella and Fred Scheuer are remembered in these pages . Clara and Abe Estrin ...
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... critical uncertainty about its title . The source of that uncertainty is related to a subject this book explores : the multiplicity of gender positions and genre constructs that surface once we stop to think about what the woman ...
... critical uncertainty about its title . The source of that uncertainty is related to a subject this book explores : the multiplicity of gender positions and genre constructs that surface once we stop to think about what the woman ...
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... critical reaction , both the source of Petrarch's life and the meaning of his discourse . She takes on the poet's role , denies his power to circumscribe her , and asserts her elusiveness in terms of her exclusive control over the field ...
... critical reaction , both the source of Petrarch's life and the meaning of his discourse . She takes on the poet's role , denies his power to circumscribe her , and asserts her elusiveness in terms of her exclusive control over the field ...
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... critical act demands a look beneath the surface , a pentimento that reveals alternative possibili- ties latent in the event . In that context , uncovering emerges , as undress- ing does in John Donne's " Elegy : 19 , " a shift in ...
... critical act demands a look beneath the surface , a pentimento that reveals alternative possibili- ties latent in the event . In that context , uncovering emerges , as undress- ing does in John Donne's " Elegy : 19 , " a shift in ...
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... critical insistence ( as Reed Way Dasen- brock argues ) that " literature is made up of works not texts , created by individual authors working at specific ... moments of history , " why persist in reading for multiple poets and ...
... critical insistence ( as Reed Way Dasen- brock argues ) that " literature is made up of works not texts , created by individual authors working at specific ... moments of history , " why persist in reading for multiple poets and ...
Índice
Laura as Eve to Petrarchs Adam | 41 |
LIKE A MAN WHO THINKS AND WEEPS AND WRITES | 61 |
Wyatts Revenge in the Lyrics and Sustenance in the Psalms | 93 |
Telling Wyatts Feelings | 123 |
Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics | 149 |
Returning Donnes Gifts | 180 |
Contracting and Abstracting the You in Donnes A Valediction of My Name in the Window and Elegy Change | 201 |
Appropriations of Female Power in Damon the Mower and The Gallery | 227 |
Marvells Nymph and the Revenge of Silence | 255 |
After the Garden in Appleton House | 278 |
MUSING AFTERWARD | 304 |
NOTES | 319 |
INDEX | 339 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Actaeon Adam Adam's already anamorphic anticipates Apollo Appleton House argues Battus becomes begins body Bordone Bordone painting Broken Heart calls Change Clora Coy Mistress critical Damon Daphne David death deer defines denial denies desire Diana discourse Donne Donne's dream dyad emerges eternity eyes fawn feeling female flee frame Funerall future Gallery gaze gender Genesis genre gesture idealized imagined imbricated imitates initial inspiration invents Jean-François Lyotard Jeat Ring John Donne Juliana Kazimir Malevich lady lady's Laura Laura-Daphne Laura-Eve Laura-Mercury laurel list to hunt lover Lyotard lyric male Marvell Marvell's metaphor mirror Monique Wittig mower myth Nancy Vickers narrator nymph opening original Ovid Petrarch Petrarchan Petrarchan poem poet poet's poetic poetry polyptych present Psalms reading Renaissance revenge Rime sparse 23 sequence sexual sighs song speaker speaks stanza story sublimation suggests tion turns vision Weeping Whoso list woman women words writes Wyatt
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