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
... questions cannot be simple . As a chapter of this book points out , men have been writing about aban- doned women as long as poetry has existed , from motives that range from sympathy and desire to fear and hatred of women , and we had ...
... questions cannot be simple . As a chapter of this book points out , men have been writing about aban- doned women as long as poetry has existed , from motives that range from sympathy and desire to fear and hatred of women , and we had ...
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... question its grounds . In one of Tsvetayeva s most famous poems , " An Attempt at Jealousy , " she warns an ex - lover that without her love , its hysteria and divinity , his life will seem empty . As a matter of fact she was right ...
... question its grounds . In one of Tsvetayeva s most famous poems , " An Attempt at Jealousy , " she warns an ex - lover that without her love , its hysteria and divinity , his life will seem empty . As a matter of fact she was right ...
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... questions cost me many sleepless nights and gave me many new ideas . Closer to home , Joanna B. Lipking asked many more questions than I could answer and taught me more than I can re- cord . I cannot mention here all those who have ...
... questions cost me many sleepless nights and gave me many new ideas . Closer to home , Joanna B. Lipking asked many more questions than I could answer and taught me more than I can re- cord . I cannot mention here all those who have ...
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... questions inform this book . So far as possible I have tried to think about them without preconceptions or dogma , without undue ab- straction , and without limiting the investigation to any one time , place , or language . Nor does a ...
... questions inform this book . So far as possible I have tried to think about them without preconceptions or dogma , without undue ab- straction , and without limiting the investigation to any one time , place , or language . Nor does a ...
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... question , is Cri- seyde or Troilus the more abandoned ? Whatever the answer , the question could not have been raised without the hero's conversion to the heroine's code of values . Men seldom discover such intelligence by themselves ...
... question , is Cri- seyde or Troilus the more abandoned ? Whatever the answer , the question could not have been raised without the hero's conversion to the heroine's code of values . Men seldom discover such intelligence by themselves ...
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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