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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... poems , and how abandoned women have functioned in poems . My final aim is to modify our understanding of the nature of poetry itself . I began this book , about ten years ago , by noticing a phenomenon for which standard literary ...
... poems , and how abandoned women have functioned in poems . My final aim is to modify our understanding of the nature of poetry itself . I began this book , about ten years ago , by noticing a phenomenon for which standard literary ...
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... poems , and how abandoned women have func- tioned in poems . My final aim is to modify our understanding of the nature of poetry itself . I began this book , about ten years ago , by notic- ing a phenomenon for which standard literary ...
... poems , and how abandoned women have func- tioned in poems . My final aim is to modify our understanding of the nature of poetry itself . I began this book , about ten years ago , by notic- ing a phenomenon for which standard literary ...
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... poems about love . Christine was expert at exploring the feelings of a woman left alone ; her most famous poem , the ballad " Seulette suy , et seulette vueil estre " ( " Alone am I , and wish to be alone " ) , repeats the loneliness of ...
... poems about love . Christine was expert at exploring the feelings of a woman left alone ; her most famous poem , the ballad " Seulette suy , et seulette vueil estre " ( " Alone am I , and wish to be alone " ) , repeats the loneliness of ...
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... poem differs from most in which abandoned women speak : the man does not internalize his abandonment . Instead he regards it as strange or unnatural ( as in the ironic " kindely " ) and concludes not with unending regret but with ...
... poem differs from most in which abandoned women speak : the man does not internalize his abandonment . Instead he regards it as strange or unnatural ( as in the ironic " kindely " ) and concludes not with unending regret but with ...
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... poem in the voice of an aban- doned woman ; that is one of the best - kept secrets of poetic tradition . Often these cross - dressed poems have a crucial place , I shall argue , in the poet's development . Thus a third principle of this ...
... poem in the voice of an aban- doned woman ; that is one of the best - kept secrets of poetic tradition . Often these cross - dressed poems have a crucial place , I shall argue , in the poet's development . Thus a third principle of this ...
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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