The Subject of Desire: Petrarchan Poetics and the Female Voice in Louise Labé
Deborah Lesko Baker, Tom Conley
"The Subject of Desire" traces Labé’s restructuring of the female subject and speaking voice through a detailed, integrated study of all four texts comprising the 1555 (Oeuvres. Through a series of dose readings, the book highlights Labé’s revision of Petrarchan poetics and her creation of an original voice in the evolution of the French Renaissance lyric. In detailing Labé's movement from acute interiority to active exteriority, "The Subject of Desire" reveals how Labé struggles to construct a new set of values concerning communication about love in both public and private discourse — values that her readers are called upon to consider as they face the complexities of their own personal experiences.
Categories:
Year:
1996
Publisher:
Purdue University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
272
ISBN 10:
1557530882
ISBN 13:
9781557530882
Series:
Purdue Studies in Romance Literature
File:
PDF, 13.18 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1996