Romantic Androgyny: The Women WithinPennsylvania State University Press, 1990 - 274 páginas Romantic Androgyny is the first study to systematically apply the currents of French and Anglo-American feminist literary criticism to an analysis of the major poetry of the Romantic period. Diane Hoeveler argues that Romantic male poets self-consciously employed the feminine as "Other" and as an alternative source of value in order to engage in a fictional completion of their own psyches. Furthermore, a large proportion of the "women" in the poetry of the major Romantics cannot be understood apart from this radical metaphoric tradition of literary absorption. Because of the power of the feminine as "Other," women in English Romantic poetry have been on the one hand idealized and on the other denigrated by critics in the field. Hoeveler attempts to correct the flaws of both views by placing the various images of women into a psychoanalytical and historical framework. All six canonical poets participated in one of their culture's dominant ideological fantasies that imaginative creativity was possible for males only if they absorbed the feminine principle and thus became androgynous. Romantic Androgyny argues that the images of the symbolic woman were determined by the poets' adherence to the ideologies of both androgyny and the Eternal Feminine that permeated late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. |
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... dream of fulfillment and the realiza- tion that the dream is a fable , a fiction , an illusion . As Wendy O'Fla- herty points out in her discussion of the androgyne in Hindu tradition , duality in yogic thought represented death , while ...
... Dream of , Not to Tell " On the night of 28 November 1800 , Coleridge went to bed to confront one of the many guises the femme fatale was to take in his dreams . He records that on that night he was visited by " a most frightful Dream ...
... dream : " Ah ! woe betide ! / The latest dream I ever dream'd / On the cold hill's side " ( 9 ) . This dream refers back to the dream that constitutes the first three stanzas of the poem , and in it he sees " pale kings , and princes ...
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Medeas Wondrous Alchemy | 25 |
She was almost a mother she was something | 77 |
Sometimes I curse sometimes bless | 119 |
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