Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and MarvellDuke University Press, 15.12.1994 - 360 Seiten 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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... sexual genders , setting the libidinal openness of Longus's story against the restrictive binarisms of the Petrarchan ethos . Longus's romance chronicles a lost child plot . As supposed shepherds , Daphnis and Chloe discover their ...
... sexual genders , setting the libidinal openness of Longus's story against the restrictive binarisms of the Petrarchan ethos . Longus's romance chronicles a lost child plot . As supposed shepherds , Daphnis and Chloe discover their ...
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... sexual plea- sure . The ring around the man accents the sublimation of pleasure — and the annihilation of the woman's body . It's all in the man's head . If the picture becomes Cupid's story , then the lovers are bound to separate . If ...
... sexual plea- sure . The ring around the man accents the sublimation of pleasure — and the annihilation of the woman's body . It's all in the man's head . If the picture becomes Cupid's story , then the lovers are bound to separate . If ...
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... sexual pleasure in the self . In both configurations of the Bordone painting , the woman is the problematic agent ... sexuality ; and the two subplots — with Laura as Eve , or woman who returns sexuality , and Laura as Mercury , or woman ...
... sexual pleasure in the self . In both configurations of the Bordone painting , the woman is the problematic agent ... sexuality ; and the two subplots — with Laura as Eve , or woman who returns sexuality , and Laura as Mercury , or woman ...
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... sexual denials into poetic material . Robert Dur- ling summarizes Apollo's impasse : " When the lover catches up with the object of his pursuit , she has turned " into a literal object : the laurel tree of the myth . 18 Durling explains ...
... sexual denials into poetic material . Robert Dur- ling summarizes Apollo's impasse : " When the lover catches up with the object of his pursuit , she has turned " into a literal object : the laurel tree of the myth . 18 Durling explains ...
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... sexual priorities ( in Daphne's denials and Eve's desire ) or to voice the woman's creative capacity ( in Mercury's inventiveness ) . Complicating the sexual failure in Petrarchism is the presence in some poems of a desiring , albeit ...
... sexual priorities ( in Daphne's denials and Eve's desire ) or to voice the woman's creative capacity ( in Mercury's inventiveness ) . Complicating the sexual failure in Petrarchism is the presence in some poems of a desiring , albeit ...
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Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and Marvell Barbara L. Estrin Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1994 |
Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and Marvell Barbara L. Estrin Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1994 |
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Actaeon Adam Adam's already anamorphic Andrew Marvell 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 denial denies desire Diana discourse Donne's dream dyad emerges eternity eyes fawn feeling female flee Funerall future Gallery gaze gender Genesis genre gesture idealized imagined imitates initial inspiration invents 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 original Ovid Petrarch Petrarchan Petrarchan poem poet poet's poetic poetry polyptych present Psalms reading reflects Renaissance revenge Rime sparse 23 sequence sexual sighs song Sonnets space speaker speaks stanza story sublimation suggests tion turns University Press vision Weeping Whoso list woman women words writes Wyatt