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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... reader of poems . He is fluent , lucid , but subtle ; restless , energetic , but at ease with several languages ; self ... readers . After Sappho defined the lyric of abandonment , male poets insisted on abandoning. viii Series Editor's ...
... reader of poems . He is fluent , lucid , but subtle ; restless , energetic , but at ease with several languages ; self ... readers . After Sappho defined the lyric of abandonment , male poets insisted on abandoning. viii Series Editor's ...
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... reader of poems . He is flu- ent , lucid , but subtle ; restless , energetic , but at ease with several languages ; self - conscious , self ... readers . After Sappho defined viii the lyric of abandonment , male poets insisted on abandoning.
... reader of poems . He is flu- ent , lucid , but subtle ; restless , energetic , but at ease with several languages ; self - conscious , self ... readers . After Sappho defined viii the lyric of abandonment , male poets insisted on abandoning.
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... readers . A history of poetry that left them out , like an Odyssey with no Penelope , would lose its sense of direction and sexual balance . Too many accounts of poetic tradition have done without women . This book tries to remedy a ...
... readers . A history of poetry that left them out , like an Odyssey with no Penelope , would lose its sense of direction and sexual balance . Too many accounts of poetic tradition have done without women . This book tries to remedy a ...
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... readers belong to either sex . The poetry of abandoned women reveals not only how the sexes differ in their dreams but also what they share . Much of the character of this book derives from its critical and perhaps precarious balance ...
... readers belong to either sex . The poetry of abandoned women reveals not only how the sexes differ in their dreams but also what they share . Much of the character of this book derives from its critical and perhaps precarious balance ...
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... readers can span them . This book is on middle ground . To some extent my work participates in the large and growing field devoted to writing by women ; and cer- tainly I could not have conceived such a book without being indebted to ...
... readers can span them . This book is on middle ground . To some extent my work participates in the large and growing field devoted to writing by women ; and cer- tainly I could not have conceived such a book without being indebted to ...
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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