Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition, Volume 10At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition. |
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Page xii
... Hence scholars have redrawn the map of literature by examining not only what literary studies have taken in but what they have refused to notice . The figure of the abandoned woman raises such issues with exceptional force . Even the ...
... Hence scholars have redrawn the map of literature by examining not only what literary studies have taken in but what they have refused to notice . The figure of the abandoned woman raises such issues with exceptional force . Even the ...
Page xvii
... Hence those who are abandoned may be banished by the one who controls them ( given up by ) or they may take the reins entirely into their own hands ( given up to ) . This verbal duplicity hints at the roots of power beneath the ...
... Hence those who are abandoned may be banished by the one who controls them ( given up by ) or they may take the reins entirely into their own hands ( given up to ) . This verbal duplicity hints at the roots of power beneath the ...
Page xviii
... Hence poems about female aban- donment often have an air of inevitability , as if the woman were discov- ering the fate that expresses her being , while poems about male abandon- ment tend to sound resentful or puzzled , as if the man ...
... Hence poems about female aban- donment often have an air of inevitability , as if the woman were discov- ering the fate that expresses her being , while poems about male abandon- ment tend to sound resentful or puzzled , as if the man ...
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... Hence this kind of writing provides a rare opportunity to discern some ways that men have imagined women and women have imagined themselves . Adapting her voice to abandon- ment , the female poet probes some emotions that may be her ...
... Hence this kind of writing provides a rare opportunity to discern some ways that men have imagined women and women have imagined themselves . Adapting her voice to abandon- ment , the female poet probes some emotions that may be her ...
Page xxvi
... Hence this book does not attempt to resolve the inherent tension between the use of abandoned women as rhetorical figures and the persistent reality that they represent . To choose between the two would mock the power of poetry ...
... Hence this book does not attempt to resolve the inherent tension between the use of abandoned women as rhetorical figures and the persistent reality that they represent . To choose between the two would mock the power of poetry ...
Contents
Ariadne at the Wedding Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition | xxvii |
Lord Byrons Secret The School of Abandonment | 30 |
Sappho Descending Abandonment through the Ages | 55 |
Sappho Descending Abandonment to the Present | 95 |
The Rape of the Sibyl Male Poets and Abandoned Women | 125 |
Could I be like her? The Example of Women Alone | 168 |
Aristotles Sister A Poetics of Abandonment | 207 |
Notes and Glosses | 227 |
Index | 287 |
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