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 xi
... means mine alone . It seems to me part of the larger history of literary studies in the past few decades , part of the interest of scholars and critics in writing previously thought marginal or beyond the pale . I do not mean by this ...
... means mine alone . It seems to me part of the larger history of literary studies in the past few decades , part of the interest of scholars and critics in writing previously thought marginal or beyond the pale . I do not mean by this ...
Page xv
... means being abandoned . A similar theme winds through traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry , with their lonely , longing wives and neglected concubines . Women and poetry and aban- donment are associated in ancient Ur and modern ...
... means being abandoned . A similar theme winds through traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry , with their lonely , longing wives and neglected concubines . Women and poetry and aban- donment are associated in ancient Ur and modern ...
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... means learning to feel abandoned . The process as a whole might be called " the Diotima effect , " after the woman who in- structed Socrates ( according to Plato ) that love attains its purest form when the object for which it longs has ...
... means learning to feel abandoned . The process as a whole might be called " the Diotima effect , " after the woman who in- structed Socrates ( according to Plato ) that love attains its purest form when the object for which it longs has ...
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... means to be left . Once having been aban- doned , he will no longer ride around the countryside in ballad fashion , succoring damsels in distress , for now he will know a distress of his own . Knights are at risk when they begin to feel ...
... means to be left . Once having been aban- doned , he will no longer ride around the countryside in ballad fashion , succoring damsels in distress , for now he will know a distress of his own . Knights are at risk when they begin to feel ...
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... means of subjugating women or reminding them how much they risk when they forfeit the protection of a man . That threat too is a part of my subject . As a tool for comparing the dreams of men and women , abandonment also touches their ...
... means of subjugating women or reminding them how much they risk when they forfeit the protection of a man . That threat too is a part of my subject . As a tool for comparing the dreams of men and women , abandonment also touches their ...
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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