The subject of desire : Petrarchan poetics and the female voice in Louise Labé /

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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 de...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baker, Deborah Lesko
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©1996.
Series:Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 11.
Subjects:
Labé, Louise, > approximately 1526-1566 > Criticism and interpretation.
Labé, Louise, > 1526?-1566 > Critique et interprétation.
Labé, Louise, > approximately 1526-1566
1500-1599
Desire in literature.
Women in literature.
Women and literature > France > History > 16th century.
Poetics > History > 16th century.
Désir dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > France > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Poétique > Histoire > 16e siècle.
HISTORY > Essays.
Desire in literature
Poetics
Women and literature
Women in literature
Gedichten.
Frans.
Wensen.
Petrarkisme.
Vrouwelijkheid.
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: A Space of One's Own / Tom Conley
  • Ch. 1. Introduction
  • Ch. 2. Entering the Literary Stage: The Epistre to Mademoiselle Clemence de Bourges, Lyonnaise
  • Ch. 3. From Polemics to Poetics: The Debat de Folie et d'Amour
  • Ch. 4. Loss and Legitimation: Labe's Elegiac Voice
  • Ch. 5. Transcending Petrarchan Poetics: Labe's Sonnets and the Rebirth of the Lyric Speaker
  • Ch. 6. Conclusion
  • Appendix: English Translations.

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