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Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and Marvell (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (Hardcover)

by Barbara L. Estrin (Author)

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Hardcover: 360 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press (1 Jun 1994)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0822315009
ISBN-13: 978-0822315001
Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16 x 3 cm
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"Barbara Estrin's "Laura" challenges the feminist contention that in early modern English love poetry by male authors the beloved female is constructed as simply a silent, passive object-figure. She postulates that even in the conventional love-situation, although the male makes the sexual advance, it is the female's response which decides the course and genre of the story: either rejecting it (Laura as Daphne); or willingly accepting it (Laura as Eve); or else reinventing the whole situation, and the power-gender status of both participants (Laura as Mercury). Estrin revisits some of Petrarch's "Rime sparse" to demonstrate that the Petrarchan tradition was always more open to this variety of possibilities than it has usually been taken to be, and then provides a series of close readings of works by Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell."
--"Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association"

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In emphasizing the resignifying moments within the reigning discourse of love, this study acknowledges the tyranny to women that most Petrarchan poems impose. But it also searches out "alternative domains of cultural intelligibility" (Judith Butler, Gender Trouble , 1990) in some Petrarchan poems to ask why Petrarch, Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell locat

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