Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition, 10. köideUniversity of Chicago Press, 29. juuli 1988 - 300 pages At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition. |
Contents
Ariadne at the Wedding Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition | xxvii |
Lord Byrons Secret The School of Abandonment | 30 |
Sappho Descending Abandonment through the Ages | 55 |
Sappho Descending Abandonment to the Present | 95 |
The Rape of the Sibyl Male Poets and Abandoned Women | 125 |
Could I be like her? The Example of Women Alone | 168 |
Aristotles Sister A Poetics of Abandonment | 207 |
Notes and Glosses | 227 |
Index | 287 |
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