Female Virginity And Male Desire In Seventeenth Century Carpe Diem Poetry

Author : Romina Müller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783640955343

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Female Virginity and Male Desire in Seventeenth Century Carpe Diem Poetry by Romina Müller Pdf

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: A, Lindenwood University (-), language: English, abstract: Back in the seventeenth century, a woman’s responsibility was to preserve her virginity until marriage. A woman who had sexual intercourse before her wedding was considered undesirable and a slut. At the same time, men had sexual needs and desires that they wanted to fulfill, may they be married to the woman of their choice or not. Dealing with this issue of virginity and the concept of using time to its fullest (carpe diem—Latin for “seize the day”) are two of the most famous poems of this time. Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” as well as Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” have a similar opinion about how a woman should use her youth and virginity, but have different ideas about whether to get married first or not.

Author : Daniela Schulze
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638931847

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John Donne - the Flea and Andrew Marvell - to His Coy Mistress by Daniela Schulze Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Bielefeld University (Universität), course: A Survey of British Literature, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: - definition of metaphysical poetry and conceits. - analysis of conceits in the poems "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Flea" with regard to virginity, sexuality and seduction in poetry of the 17th century. - comparison of Donne\'s and Marvell\'s Poetry. - conclusion.

Author : Wendy Beth Hyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192574404

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Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry by Wendy Beth Hyman Pdf

Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments or promises, but instead focus on the lovers' anticipated decline, and—quite stunningly given the Reformation context—humanity's relegation not to a Christian afterlife but to a Marvellian 'desert of vast Eternity.' In this way, a poetic trope whose classical form was an expression of pragmatic Epicureanism became, during the religious upheaval of the Reformation, an unlikely but effective vehicle for articulating religious doubt. Its ambitions were thus largely philosophical, and came to incorporate investigations into the nature of matter, time, and poetic representation. Renaissance seduction poets invited their auditors to participate in a dangerous intellectual game, one whose primary interest was expanding the limits of knowledge. The book theorizes how Renaissance lyric's own fragile relationship to materiality and time, and its self-conscious relationship to making, positioned it to grapple with these 'impossible' metaphysical and representational problems. Although attentive to poetics, the book also challenges the commonplace view that the erotic invitation is exclusively a lyrical mode. Carpe diem's revival in post-Reformation Europe portends its radicalization, as debates between man and maid are dramatized in disputes between abstractions like chastity and material facts like death. Offered here is thus a theoretical reconsideration of the generic parameters and aspirations of the carpe diem trope, wherein questions about embodiment and knowledge are also investigations into the potentialities of literary form.

Author : Pamela S. Hammons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351934428

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Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse by Pamela S. Hammons Pdf

An important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of relations among people and things, human and non-human subjects and objects. Pamela S. Hammons examines lyrics from both manuscript and print collections”including the verse of authors ranging from Robert Herrick, John Donne, and Ben Jonson to Margaret Cavendish, Lucy Hutchinson, and Aemilia Lanyer”and situates them in relation to legal theories, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and epics. Her approach fills a crucial gap in the conversation, which has focused upon drama and male-authored works, by foregrounding the significance of the lyric and women's writing. Hammons exposes the poetic strategies sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women used to assert themselves as subjects of property and economic agents”in relation to material items ranging from personal property to real estate”despite the dominant patriarchal ideology insisting they were ideally temporary, passive vehicles for men's wealth. The study details how women imagined their multiple, complex interactions with the material world:the author shows that how a woman poet represents herself in relation to material objects is a flexible fiction she can mobilize for diverse purposes. Because this book analyzes men's and women's poems together, it isolates important gendered differences in how the poets envision human subjects' use, control, possession, and ownership of things and the influences, effects, and power of things over humans. It also adds to the increasing evidence for the pervasiveness of patriarchal anxieties associated with female economic agency in a culture in which women were often treated as objects.

Author : Daniela Schulze
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783638027533

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John Donne – “The Flea” and Andrew Marvell – “To His Coy Mistress” by Daniela Schulze Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Bielefeld University (Universität), course: A Survey of British Literature, language: English, abstract: - definition of metaphysical poetry and conceits. - analysis of conceits in the poems "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Flea" with regard to virginity, sexuality and seduction in poetry of the 17th century. - comparison of Donne\'s and Marvell\'s Poetry. - conclusion.

Author : Robert Ter Horst
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015058209886

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The Fortunes of the Novel by Robert Ter Horst Pdf

The Fortunes of the Novel examines the early emergence of the novel as a genre in Spain and its subsequent rise in England. Until the sixteenth century, poetic space had never been occupied by material concerns such as hunger, which had, in fact, been disvalued and rigorously excluded from literature. The consequent combat between poetic anti-material morality and an almost irresistible new economic motivation played itself out in Spain in a great preparatory triad composed of Lazarillo de Tormes, Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache, and Cervantes' La gitanilla. The novel floundered as a result of undercapitalization, but was revived in England by Daniel Defoe's transposition of the Hispanic fictive inheritance. Ultimately, Walter Scott was the one to establish the novel as a genre that is legally conveyable and inheritable, and passed it on to Dickens, who, in Our Mutual Friend, finally produced a sufficient capital that is both poetic and good.

Author : Thomas N. Corns
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405113707

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A Companion to Milton by Thomas N. Corns Pdf

The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002. Invites readers to explore and enjoy Milton's rich and fascinating work. Comprises 29 fresh and powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar. Looks at literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, other relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time. Devotes a whole chapter to each major poem, and four to Paradise Lost. Conveys the excitement of recent developments in the field.

Author : Thomas N. Corns
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118827826

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A New Companion to Milton by Thomas N. Corns Pdf

A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar Retains 28 of the award-winning essays from the first edition, revised and updated to reflect the most recent research Contains a new section exploring Milton's global impact, in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish speaking American and the Arab-speaking world Includes eight completely new full-length essays, each of which engages closely with Milton's poetic oeuvre, and a new chronology which sets Milton's life and work in the context of his age Explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and responses to Milton over time

Author : Rebekah Ayn Keaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American poetry
ISBN : MSU:31293023729894

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Extending the Frontier by Rebekah Ayn Keaton Pdf

Author : Wendy Beth Hyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192574411

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Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry by Wendy Beth Hyman Pdf

Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments or promises, but instead focus on the lovers' anticipated decline, and—quite stunningly given the Reformation context—humanity's relegation not to a Christian afterlife but to a Marvellian 'desert of vast Eternity.' In this way, a poetic trope whose classical form was an expression of pragmatic Epicureanism became, during the religious upheaval of the Reformation, an unlikely but effective vehicle for articulating religious doubt. Its ambitions were thus largely philosophical, and came to incorporate investigations into the nature of matter, time, and poetic representation. Renaissance seduction poets invited their auditors to participate in a dangerous intellectual game, one whose primary interest was expanding the limits of knowledge. The book theorizes how Renaissance lyric's own fragile relationship to materiality and time, and its self-conscious relationship to making, positioned it to grapple with these 'impossible' metaphysical and representational problems. Although attentive to poetics, the book also challenges the commonplace view that the erotic invitation is exclusively a lyrical mode. Carpe diem's revival in post-Reformation Europe portends its radicalization, as debates between man and maid are dramatized in disputes between abstractions like chastity and material facts like death. Offered here is thus a theoretical reconsideration of the generic parameters and aspirations of the carpe diem trope, wherein questions about embodiment and knowledge are also investigations into the potentialities of literary form.

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000060920065

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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Middle Ages through the turn of the century by Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar Pdf

Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women's writing in English.

Author : Claude J. Summers,Ted-Larry Pebworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029579938

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Renaissance Discourses of Desire by Claude J. Summers,Ted-Larry Pebworth Pdf

Love and sex are preeminent subjects of Renaissance literature; however, attitudes toward these topics were hardly uniform. The discourses of desire from this period embrace works as dissimilar as sonnets on frustrated love and libertine invitations to lust. Writers both idealized and demystified sex, alternately equating it with religious transcendence or exposing it as a mere bodily itch. The fifteen essays in this volume clarify the sexual beliefs and prohibitions of the Renaissance period and examine the manifestations of those ideas in literature. Renaissance Discourses of Desire confronts important questions about the relationship of sexuality and textuality in the period using a variety of critical methods and ideological presuppositions. Some of the essays focus on the intertwining of political and sexual discourse, the difference between men and women as desiring subjects, and the erotics of criticism. The representation of homoerotics and homosexuality is discussed as is the impact of economic and social ideologies on love poetry and sexual expression. Among the texts explored are works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Carew, Herrick, Suckling, Burton, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, and Milton. With their varied approaches, these essays illustrate the richness of the topic and its susceptibility to a number of critical techniques. Illuminating important authors and significant texts, the essays collected here contribute to a fuller understanding of the complexities and range of seventeenth-century discourses of desire, while also helping to chart the outlines of the period's sexual ideologies and anxieties.

Author : Anke Bernau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Virginity
ISBN : UCSC:32106017404291

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Virgins by Anke Bernau Pdf

Witty and thought-provoking, 'Virgins' reveals virginity's changing cultural significance throughout its long history, and its enduring power in contemporary society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015068954315

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Poetry Criticism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Marvell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1857996690

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To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell Pdf

An enigmatic men, whose poems balance opposing principles-Royalism and Republicanism, spirituality and sexuality.