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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... once we stop to think about what the woman — centralized in the painting and in Petrarchan poetry — is doing . What the woman does depends upon which story she's in . Usually con- nected to the titular heroes of the ancient Greek ...
... once we stop to think about what the woman — centralized in the painting and in Petrarchan poetry — is doing . What the woman does depends upon which story she's in . Usually con- nected to the titular heroes of the ancient Greek ...
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... once , without his perceiving it , she touched herself , for she was in doubt which of the two bodies was the finer " ( p . 17 ) . Chloe's uncertainty centers on a subtlety of feeling , on attuning to fine tuning : " she was in doubt ...
... once , without his perceiving it , she touched herself , for she was in doubt which of the two bodies was the finer " ( p . 17 ) . Chloe's uncertainty centers on a subtlety of feeling , on attuning to fine tuning : " she was in doubt ...
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... Once the originating poet imagines the imagining woman , she ( in turn ) proceeds to probe in directions not yet revealed by— but nevertheless implicit in — the original representation . Laura describes the difference in the anamorphic ...
... Once the originating poet imagines the imagining woman , she ( in turn ) proceeds to probe in directions not yet revealed by— but nevertheless implicit in — the original representation . Laura describes the difference in the anamorphic ...
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... Once surfaced in the Rime sparse , Laura - Eve and Laura - Mercury don't just fade away . They infiltrate the genre so that even the main plot is anamorphic . Things aren't the same anymore once we read them into the discourse , and ...
... Once surfaced in the Rime sparse , Laura - Eve and Laura - Mercury don't just fade away . They infiltrate the genre so that even the main plot is anamorphic . Things aren't the same anymore once we read them into the discourse , and ...
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... once again , face to face with the poem - denying Laura . The force is involved in the thing described , not somewhere behind , or apart from , or opposite to it , but there , in the beginning . The force does not necessarily originate ...
... once again , face to face with the poem - denying Laura . The force is involved in the thing described , not somewhere behind , or apart from , or opposite to it , but there , in the beginning . The force does not necessarily originate ...
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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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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