Desiring voices : women sonneteers and Petrarchism /
Mary B. Moore.
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books
| Utgitt | Carbondale : : Southern Illinois University Press, , c2000.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xiii, 290 p. )
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Ad feminam: women and literature / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Introduction: voicing desire -- The complication of subjectivity: Petrarch and the guise of blindness -- Body of light, body of matter: self-reference as self-modeling in Gaspara Stampa -- Eating desire and embracing error: Louise Labé and the spectacle of Sappho -- The labyrinth of style: Lady Mary Wroth and the idea of Petrarchism -- Charlotte Smith and the echoes of melancholy -- Indeterminacy and the economy of love in Sonnets from the Portuguese -- A fitting form: Edna St. Vinent Millay and Petrarchism -- Conclusion: echoes of desiring voices.. - "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 Labe, Lady Mary Wroth, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Edna St. Vincent Millay."--Jacket.
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| ISBN | 0809323079
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