The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing BlindnessManchester University Press, 2001 - 279 pagina's This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition.The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry. |
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... poet's relation to a disfiguring sublime , imagined as an aggressive female forge which feminises the male in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him . By poetic vision I mean not merely the way the poet maps the visual ...
... poet's relation to a disfiguring sublime , imagined as an aggressive female forge which feminises the male in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him . By poetic vision I mean not merely the way the poet maps the visual ...
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... poet enables himself as a poet through his own continued myth - making . As a consequence this book has powerful implications for a new understanding of the sublime in English poetry and for the poetic tradition . It deepens awareness ...
... poet enables himself as a poet through his own continued myth - making . As a consequence this book has powerful implications for a new understanding of the sublime in English poetry and for the poetic tradition . It deepens awareness ...
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... poet's daring manipulation of the properties of the Miltonic mythic legacy . It also takes pains to show that Swinburne is best read with reference to the poetic past which he absorbed and represented in his work , arguably with greater ...
... poet's daring manipulation of the properties of the Miltonic mythic legacy . It also takes pains to show that Swinburne is best read with reference to the poetic past which he absorbed and represented in his work , arguably with greater ...
Inhoudsopgave
Orpheus Sappho and the feminised | 11 |
Milton and Shelley | 47 |
from Sappho to Satan | 88 |
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The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness Catherine Maxwell Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2001 |
The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness Catherine Maxwell Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2009 |
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