Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and MarvellDuke University Press, 15.12.1994 - 345 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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... poet's ability to transform her 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 ...
... poet's ability to transform her 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 ...
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... poetic success figured as its essential by - product . Both myths thicken the texture of the complex to threaten the eternalizing consolation of poetic laurels . At various points in the Rime sparse , the three women — Laura - Daphne ...
... poetic success figured as its essential by - product . Both myths thicken the texture of the complex to threaten the eternalizing consolation of poetic laurels . At various points in the Rime sparse , the three women — Laura - Daphne ...
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... poetic defiance of her . Opening his breast and steal- ing his heart , she warns : " Di cio non far parola [ Make no word of this ] " ( l.74 ) . Like the Ovidian Mercury , she tests Petrarch - Battus , assuming " in altro abito sola ...
... poetic defiance of her . Opening his breast and steal- ing his heart , she warns : " Di cio non far parola [ Make no word of this ] " ( l.74 ) . Like the Ovidian Mercury , she tests Petrarch - Battus , assuming " in altro abito sola ...
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... poet of the English Renais- sance , " the past ( of Petrarch's Rime sparse ] was [ not ] a foreign country , " 22 nor ... poetic family was decidedly male and that Pe- trarchan poems always speak away the woman . Following the seminal ...
... poet of the English Renais- sance , " the past ( of Petrarch's Rime sparse ] was [ not ] a foreign country , " 22 nor ... poetic family was decidedly male and that Pe- trarchan poems always speak away the woman . Following the seminal ...
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... poetic order is automatically gendered . Be- cause we are each the other from the start , as Lyotard and Butler suggest , we cannot separate " wanting to be [ from ] wanting to have " ( " Imitation and Gender Insubordination , " p . 26 ) ...
... poetic order is automatically gendered . Be- cause we are each the other from the start , as Lyotard and Butler suggest , we cannot separate " wanting to be [ from ] wanting to have " ( " Imitation and Gender Insubordination , " p . 26 ) ...
Inhalt
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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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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