Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to CowperUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 227 էջ Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper revisits the foundations of poetic representation and value for women and men poets of the Restoration and eighteenth century including Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Anne Killigrew, Anne Finch, and Alexander Pope. The author argues that fundamental to poetic innovation in this era are poets' revisions of feminine figures such as the muse and nature. Feminine Nature serves these poets as an infinitely expandable category of form that allows them to redefine poetry and poetic subjectivity. These poetic innovations include exploring the very grounds of mimesis, dismantling the hierarchy of poetic kinds, and using sensibility to yoke aesthetic and ethical values. Using an inclusive framework, the author presents a history of poetic change through women's and men's complex dialogues with poetic contexts and conventions. Jennifer Keith is Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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... human . We have seen in chapter 1 how Pope made himself or his male friends into muses as a way of appropriating this source of poetic greatness . But when women poets make themselves or their female friends into muses , not only do ...
... human . We have seen in chapter 1 how Pope made himself or his male friends into muses as a way of appropriating this source of poetic greatness . But when women poets make themselves or their female friends into muses , not only do ...
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... human , expression of this divinity that accommodates itself to human understanding appears in the conventionally feminine moon . Addison uses the moon's association with the feminine to create a connection to the earthly realm ( mother ...
... human , expression of this divinity that accommodates itself to human understanding appears in the conventionally feminine moon . Addison uses the moon's association with the feminine to create a connection to the earthly realm ( mother ...
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... human suffering while elements of the sublime make issues of equality and freedom part of moral and aesthetic imperatives . In Helen Maria Williams's " On the Bill Which Was Passed in England for Regulating the Slave - Trade ; A Short ...
... human suffering while elements of the sublime make issues of equality and freedom part of moral and aesthetic imperatives . In Helen Maria Williams's " On the Bill Which Was Passed in England for Regulating the Slave - Trade ; A Short ...
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Introduction | 11 |
Dryden Pope and the Transformation of the Muse | 30 |
Women Poets and the Muse | 51 |
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