Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from June 1996

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from June 1996

Gaspara Stampa and the gender of Petrarchism.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1996... The immense fact of Petrarchism gives Renaissance literature some of its most obvious insignia of continuity and coherence, but we have not been especially resourceful in assessing what they mean or even in keeping track of what they are. There...

On not being deceived: rhetoric and the body in Twelfth Night.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1996... Elder Loveless. Mistres, your wil leads my speeches from the purpose. But as a man-- Lady. A Simile servant? This room was built for honest meaners, that deliver themselves hastily and plainely, and are gone. Is this a time or place for...

All my deed but copying is: the erotics of identity in Astrophil and Stella.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1996... Surprisingly, the erotic components of lyric poetry in the English Renaissance have not attracted a great deal of critical attention over the years. On the contrary, critics almost seem to recoil from the erotic in Renaissance poetry, willing...

Milton's poetics of generation.(John Milton)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1996... Many still consider Milton to be the chief poet of a patriarchal, oedipally conflicted literary tradition-one in which poets create out of a competitive response to other poets. Setting out the theory of a poesis of anxiety, Harold Bloom...

A theory of female coyness.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1996... This essay argues that coyness, a well-known feature of female behavior in seventeenth-century love poetry, is linked almost in the manner of a Darwinian adaptation to a well-known feature of male psychology found in the same literature. I...