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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... Faces . Paying particular attention to the oldest versions of her story , it would sketch an anthropological pattern or psychological configuration that underlies both the most primitive and most sophisticated retellings of the myth ...
... Faces . Paying particular attention to the oldest versions of her story , it would sketch an anthropological pattern or psychological configuration that underlies both the most primitive and most sophisticated retellings of the myth ...
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... Faces . Paying particular attention to the oldest versions of her story , it would sketch an anthropological pattern or psychological configuration that underlies both the most primitive and most sophisti- cated retellings of the myth ...
... Faces . Paying particular attention to the oldest versions of her story , it would sketch an anthropological pattern or psychological configuration that underlies both the most primitive and most sophisti- cated retellings of the myth ...
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... face of anyone who looks into it . We may not like what we see in that mirror . Precisely because so many men have impersonated abandoned women , their poems document the omnipresence of attitudes of male supremacy . From one point of ...
... face of anyone who looks into it . We may not like what we see in that mirror . Precisely because so many men have impersonated abandoned women , their poems document the omnipresence of attitudes of male supremacy . From one point of ...
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... face in making poems . It follows those problems through the whole world of poetry . The poems discussed range from the beginnings of recorded history to the present , from East to West , from " high " art to " low . " This scope is ...
... face in making poems . It follows those problems through the whole world of poetry . The poems discussed range from the beginnings of recorded history to the present , from East to West , from " high " art to " low . " This scope is ...
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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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