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The subject of desire

Petrarchan poetics and the female voice in Louise Labé

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An edition of The subject of desire (1996)

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 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.

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Purdue University Press
Language
English
Pages
249

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Subjects

History, Desire in literature, Women and literature, Poetics, Criticism and interpretation, Women in literature, French literature, history and criticism, 16th century

People

Louise Labé (1526?-1566)

Places

France

Times

16th century

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The Subject of Desire: Petrarchan Poetics and the Female Voice in Louise Labe (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, V. 11) (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, V. 11)
October 11, 2004, Purdue University Press
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The subject of desire: Petrarchan poetics and the female voice in Louise Labé
1996, Purdue University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.

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West Lafayette, Ind
Series
Purdue studies in Romance literatures ;, v. 11

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Dewey Decimal Class
841/.3
Library of Congress
PQ1628.L2 B35 1996

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Pagination
xvi, 249 p. ;
Number of pages
249

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OL970459M
Internet Archive
subjectofdesirep00bake
ISBN 10
1557530882
LCCN
96007181
OCLC/WorldCat
34282759
Goodreads
2183361

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