The Currency Of Eros

Author : Ann Rosalind Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015018522303

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The Currency of Eros by Ann Rosalind Jones Pdf

"Professor Jones' book uniquely fills a huge hole in gender studies in the Renaissance. Its easy clarity of argument, its scrupulous care for detail, its just plain good story telling, and its theoretical sophistication make it an obvious candidate for the status of standard work." —Maureen Quilligan " . . full of fine insights . . . a fine addition to a growing body of work on Renaissance women writers." —Renaissance Quarterly "In this forceful and perceptive study . . . Jones has fused gyno- and gender criticism superbly and produced one of the most important works on the European renaissance lyric in this decade." —L'Esprit Créateur " . . . this absorbing study encourages (re)reading, reflection, and debate on the texts in question, and revitalizes and reorients the reader's understanding of the function and potential of early modern love lyric." —French Studies " . . . an intelligent, persuasive work . . . " —Italica " . . . is richly suggestive of the range and variety of women's writing in the early modern period . . . " —Review of English Studies The Currency of Eros examines women's love lyrics in Renaissance Europe as strategic responses to two cultural systems: early modern gender ideologies and male-authored literary conventions.

Author : Marianne Novy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0252063236

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Cross-cultural Performances by Marianne Novy Pdf

Author : Tina Krontiris
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 0415162637

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Oppositional Voices by Tina Krontiris Pdf

A fascinating study of the writing of six women writers of the period. Encompassing their poetry, drama and romantic fiction, the study shows how gender ideology, economics and class, as well as literary convention, shaped their work.

Author : Madeline C. Zilfi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004108041

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Women in the Ottoman Empire by Madeline C. Zilfi Pdf

This collection of articles by 14 Middle East historians is a pathbreaking work in the history of Middle Eastern women prior to the contemporary era. The collection seeks to begin the task of reconstructing the history of (Muslim) women's experience in the middle centuries of the Ottoman era, between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth, prior to hegemonic European involvement in the region and prior to the "modernizing reforms' inaugurated by the Ottoman regime.

Author : Margo Hendricks,Patricia Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135088118

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Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period by Margo Hendricks,Patricia Parker Pdf

Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period is an extraordinarily comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of one of the most neglected areas in current scholarship. The contributors use literary, historical, anthropological and medical materials to explore an important intersection within the major era of European imperial expansion. The volume looks at: * the conditions of women's writing and the problems of female authorship in the period. * the tensions between recent feminist criticism and the questions of `race', empire and colonialism. *the relationship between the early modern period and post-colonial theory and recent African writing. Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period contains ground-breaking work by some of the most exciting scholars in contemporary criticism and theory. It will be vital reading for anyone working or studying in the field.

Author : Karen Raber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351964906

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Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700 by Karen Raber Pdf

Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam, the first original drama written in English by a woman, has been a touchstone for feminist scholarship in the period for several decades and is now one of the most anthologized works by a Renaissance woman writer. Her History of ... Edward II has provided fertile ground for questions about authorship and historical form. The essays included in this volume highlight the many evolving debates about Cary's works, from their complicated generic characteristics, to the social and political contexts they reflect, to the ways in which Cary's writing enters into dialogue with texts by male writers of her time. In its critical introduction, the volume offers a thorough analysis of where Cary criticism has been and where it might venture in the future.

Author : Kirk D. Read
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317174073

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Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France by Kirk D. Read Pdf

The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive power from contemporaneous medical and scientific discourse. In this study, Kirk Read brings together literary and medical texts that represent a range of views, from lyric poets, satirists and polemicists, to midwives and surgeons, all of whom explore the popular sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century narratives of birth in France. Although the rhetoric of birthing was widely used, strategies and negotiations depended upon sex and gender; this study considers the male, female, and hermaphroditic experience, offering both an analysis of women's experiences to be sure, but also opening onto the perspectives of non-female birthers and their place in the social and political climate of early modern France. The writers explored include Rabelais, Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches, Louise Boursier, Pierre de Ronsard, Pierre Boaistuau and Jacques Duval. Read also explores the implications of the metaphorical use of reproduction, such as the presentation of literary work as offspring and the poet/mentor relationship as that of a suckling child. Foregrounded in the study are the questions of what it means for women to embrace biological and literary reproduction and how male appropriation of the birthing body influences the mission of creating new literary traditions. Furthermore, by exploring the cases of indeterminate birthing entities and the social anxiety that informs them, Read complicates the binarisms at work in the vexed terrain of sexuality, sex, and gender in this period. Ultimately, Read considers how the narrative of birth produces historical conceptions of identity, authority, and gender.

Author : Meredith K. Ray
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802097040

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Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance by Meredith K. Ray Pdf

During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, self-promotion, social critique, and religious dissent. Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance examines the letter collections of women writers, arguing that these works were a studied performance of pervasive ideas about gender as well as genre, a form of self-fashioning that variously reflected, manipulated, and subverted cultural and literary conventions regarding femininity and masculinity. Meredith K. Ray presents letter collections from authors of diverse backgrounds, including a noblewoman, a courtesan, an actress, a nun, and a male writer who composed letters under female pseudonyms. Ray's study includes extensive new archival research and highlights a widespread interest in women's letter collections during the Italian Renaissance that suggests a deep curiosity about the female experience and a surprising openness to women's participation in this kind of literary production.

Author : Julie Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351153829

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Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Julie Campbell Pdf

A comparative analysis, this study examines the interactions of early modern male and female writers within the context of literary circles. In particular, Campbell examines how the querelle des femmes as a discursive rhetorical tradition of praise and blame influenced perceptions of well-educated women who were part of literary circles in Italy, France, and England from approximately 1530 to 1650. To gain a better sense of how querelle language and issues were used for or against learned women writers, Campbell aligns selected works by female and male writers, pairing them to analyze how the woman writer responds, deflects, or rewrites the male writer's ideological script on women. She focuses first on the courtesan Tullia d'Aragona's response in her Dialogo della infinità di amore to Sperone Speroni's Dialogo di amore, and contrasts the actress/writer Isabella Andreini's pastoral La Mirtilla with Torquato Tasso's Aminta. She then discusses the influence of Italian actresses upon the manners and mores of French women of the Valois court, especially focusing on performative aspects of French women's participation in court and salon rituals. To that end, she examines the influential salon of the aristocratic, learned Claude-Catherine de Clermont, duchesse de Retz, who encouraged the writing of positive querelle rhetoric in the form of Petrarchan, Neoplatonic encomiastic poetry to buttress her reputation and that of her female friends. Next, Campbell reads Louise Lab D‘t de Folie et d'Amour against Pontus de Tyard's Solitaire premier to illustrate the tensions between a traditional and nontraditional querelle stance. She then discusses Continental influence upon English writers in the context of the Sidney circle in England. Moving to the closet dramas of the Sidney circle, Campbell examines the solidarity these writers demonstrated with nontraditional stances on querelle issues, and, finally, she explores how three generations of English literary circles con

Author : Women in German Yearbook
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803298110

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Women in German Yearbook by Women in German Yearbook Pdf

Each volume of Women in German Yearbook includes a wide variety of feminist essays on German literature and culture. In volume 14 John M. Jeep focuses on women's friendships in an anonymous twelfth-century paraphrase and commentary on the Song of Songs, Albrecht Classen examines a sixteenth-century songbook, and Mara R. Wade documents the importance of the contributions of three seventeenth-century Saxon sisters.Melanie Archangeli draws attention to the contributions of Charlotte von Hezel. Gail K. Hart explores Friedrich Schiller's Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Lisa C. Roetzel reads Die G_nderode as a documentation of Bettine von Arnim's subversive notions of female genius.Muriel Cormican analyzes the vacillation between submission and self-assertion of the female protagonist in Lou Andreas-Salomä's Das Haus. Inca Rumold reads Else Lasker-Sch_ler's Der Malik as a pacifist response to World War I. Friederike Emonds investigates the concepts of Heimat and Vaterland in Frau Emma kÜmpft im Hinterland. Catherine C. Marshall sees the alternative society created in Ilse Langner's KlytÜmnestra as a feminist response to the rhetoric of war.Dagmar C. G. Lorenz explores the concepts "man" and "animal" in the works of Jewish writers. Hannelore Mundt focuses on the narrator's preoccupation with Katherine Mansfield in a recent novel by Christa Moog, and Sabine Wilke analyzes the cruel woman in the works of Monika Treut against the background of earlier depictions by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and the marquis de Sade.Sara Friedrichsmeyer is a professor in and chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati. Patricia Herminghouse is a professor of German at the University of Rochester.

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780996299220

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Pervert-Schizoid-Woman by Michael Williams Pdf

Touching on the fields of philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies, and queer theory, Pervert-Schizoid-Woman critiques the organization of Western economy, language, and desire. Author Michael Williams seeks to promote alternative frameworks for a posthumanist theory and practice of perverse selfhood and sociality. In this study, he identifies the capitalist economic system as structured by scarcity and supply/demand dynamics, discerning the paradoxical accumulation of debt as the essence of the assumed scarcity in the financial system. He also uncovers the profound isomorphism between the economics of scarcity and the castration and lack at the center of the psychoanalytic interpretation of gender, sexuality, and desire, concluding that the essential negativity in the scarcity of capitalism, the absence in the structure of language, and the castration in the network of desire are the sources of the dysfunctions in Western systems of finance, expression, and gender and sexuality.

Author : Paola Ugolini
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487532123

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The Court and Its Critics by Paola Ugolini Pdf

Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society. The court was the space that witnessed a new form of negotiation of identity and prestige, the definition of masculinity and of gender-specific roles, the birth of modern politics and of an ethics based on merit and on individual self-interest. The Court and Its Critics analyses anti-courtly critiques using a wide variety of sources including manuals of courtliness, dialogues, satires, and plays, from the mid-fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. The book is structured around four key figures that embody different features of anti-courtly sentiments. The figure of the courtier shows that sentiments against the court were present even among those who apparently benefitted from such a system of power. The court lady allows an investigation of the intertwining of anti-courtliness and anti-feminism. The satirist and the shepherd of pastoral dramas are investigated as attempts to fashion two different forms of a new self for the court intellectual.

Author : Deborah Lesko Baker
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Desire in literature
ISBN : 1557530882

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The Subject of Desire by Deborah Lesko Baker Pdf

The French Renaissance poet Louise Labe is one of the most striking and influential women writers of early modern Europe. In her broad-ranging volume of prose and poetic works (1555), Labe transforms the position of woman in Renaissance discourse from an object to a subject of erotic and artistic desire and privileges the notion of desire itself as a central issue for literary and psychic exploration. Deborah Lesko Baker presents the dramatic creation and evolution of female subjectivity in Labe as a passionate quest for internal selfhood made possible through both authentic self-expression and interaction with others. In so doing she analyzes how the development of the female subject coincides with an ongoing interrogation of the inherited models of the Petrarchan lyric tradition.

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351872232

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Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France by Susan Broomhall Pdf

Focusing on the vastly understudied area of how women participated in the book trades, not just as authors, but also as patrons, copyists, illuminators, publishers, editors and readers, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France foregrounds contributions made by women during a period of profound transformation in the modes and understanding of publication. Broomhall asks whether women's experiences as authors changed when manuscript circulation gave way to the printed book as a standard form of publication. Innovatively, she broadens the concept of publication to include methods of scribal publication, through the circulation and presentation of manuscripts, and expands notions of authorship to incorporate a wide sample group of female writers and publishing experiences. She challenges the existing view that manuscript offered a "safe" means of semi-public exposure for female authors and explores its continuing presence after the introduction of print. The study introduces a wide and rich range of unexamined sources on early modern women, using an extensive range of manuscripts and the entire corpus of women's printed texts in sixteenth-century France. Most of the original texts, uncovered during the author's own extensive archival and bibliographical research, have never been re-published in modern French. Most of the citations from them are here translated into English for the first time. The work presents the only checklist of all known women's writings in printed texts, from prefaces and laudatory verse to editions of prose and poetry, between 1488 and 1599. Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France constitutes the most comprehensive assessment of women's contribution to contemporary publishing yet available. Broomhall's innovative approach and her conclusions have relevance not only for book historians and French historians, but for a broad range of scholars who work with other European literatures and histories, as well as women's studies.

Author : Andre Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429920257

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The Chains of Eros by Andre Green Pdf

The author, a leading figure in contemporary psychoanalytic theory, deplores the absence of sexuality and the erotic from current psychoanalytic theory and practice. Instead, he demonstrates how human sexuality forms an 'erotic chain'. The work of analysis, he argues, consists in following the dynamic movements of the erotic process, by ascertaining its links with other aspects of the psyche. The author re-visits many previously neglected or ignored areas of psychoanalytic debate, including the complicated relationship between pleasure and reproduction, and the links between psychoanalysis, anthropology, and biology. He also embarks on extensive and radical re-readings of Klein, Winnicott, Lacan, and other major psychoanalytic thinkers.