This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture.
Autorentext
NATASHA DISTILLER is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is author of South Africa, Shakespeare, and Post-Colonial Culture, and co-editor of Under Construction: 'race' and identity in South Africa Today, and of the journal Social Dynamics. She has also published widely in local and international journals.
Inhalt
Acknowledgements Sex, Gender, and Sexual Difference Petrarchism and Psychoanalysis Petrarchism in Early Modern England The Petrarchism of Mary Wroth Strategies of Legitimation 1796-1881 Queering the Petrarchan Subject: The Poetry of Rosa Newmarch Edna St Vincent Millay and the Dissident Petrarchan Subject Afterword: Petrarchism Today Works Cited Index
Titel
Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition
Autor
EAN
9780230583832
ISBN
978-0-230-58383-2
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
21.02.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
0.68 MB
Anzahl Seiten
226
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch
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