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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... lover that without her love , its hysteria and divinity , his life will seem empty . As a matter of fact she was right ; fifty years later , he still kept a shrine to Marina . This book suggests a similar logic in literary history ...
... lover that without her love , its hysteria and divinity , his life will seem empty . As a matter of fact she was right ; fifty years later , he still kept a shrine to Marina . This book suggests a similar logic in literary history ...
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... lover has left her , from Penelope to Sappho ; to be a heroine , for Ovid and his legion of followers , means being abandoned . A similar theme winds through traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry , with their lonely , longing wives ...
... lover has left her , from Penelope to Sappho ; to be a heroine , for Ovid and his legion of followers , means being abandoned . A similar theme winds through traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry , with their lonely , longing wives ...
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... lover and spiritually outside the law . This dual sense occurs in other European lan- guages as well as English , and it reflects a peculiar etymology . The term goes back to Latin , ad , " to , " bandon , " power or control " ( cognate ...
... lover and spiritually outside the law . This dual sense occurs in other European lan- guages as well as English , and it reflects a peculiar etymology . The term goes back to Latin , ad , " to , " bandon , " power or control " ( cognate ...
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... lovers they once knew all too well , and thus add an unusually direct note of sexual passion to the usual Petrarchan longings ... Lover and a Lady , ca. 1410 ) , a man and woman alternate in describing the development of their love , its ...
... lovers they once knew all too well , and thus add an unusually direct note of sexual passion to the usual Petrarchan longings ... Lover and a Lady , ca. 1410 ) , a man and woman alternate in describing the development of their love , its ...
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... lover of deserting him , and does not pre- tend to have found consolation for what he has lost . Yet in one essential respect the poem differs from most in which abandoned women speak : the man does not internalize his abandonment ...
... lover of deserting him , and does not pre- tend to have found consolation for what he has lost . Yet in one essential respect the poem differs from most in which abandoned women speak : the man does not internalize his abandonment ...
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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