"And never know the joy" : sex and the erotic in English poetry / edited by C.C. Barfoot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barfoot, C. C.

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; 36.

DQR studies in literature ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Themes, motives.

English literature.

Sex in literature.

Eroticism in literature.

Sex role in literature.

English poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English poetry.

Erotic literature, English--History and criticism.

Erotic literature, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (503 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

“And Never Know the Joy” : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its instruments; the erotics of death and remembrance, are just a few of the initial themes that emerge from the twenty-five articles to be found in this volume, with many an invitation “to seize the day”. Reproduction, pregnancy, and fear; discredited and degraded libertines; the ventriloquism of sexual objects; the ease with which men are reduced to impotence by the carnality of women; orgasm and melancholy; erotic mysticism and religious sexuality; the potency and dangers of fruit and flowers; the delights of the recumbent male body and of dancing girls; the fertile ritual use of poetic texts; striptease and revolution; silent women reclaimed as active vessels, are amongst the many engaging topics that emerge out of the ongoing and entertaining scholarly discussion of sex and eroticism in English poetry.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / C.C. Barfoot

RIDDLING EROTIC IDENTITY IN EARLY ENGLISH LYRICS / JANINE ROGERS

BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE: EMBODYING RIOTOUS PERFORMANCE IN THE HARLEY LYRICS / KEVIN TEO KIA CHOONG

THE PRONOUNS OF LOVE AND SEX: THOU AND YE AMONG LOVERS IN THE CANTERBURY TALES / LUISELLA CAON

REASON VERSUS NATURE IN DUNBAR’S “TRETIS OF THE TWA MARIIT WEMEN AND THE WEDO” / BART VELDHOEN

PRICK-SONG DITTIES: MUSICAL METAPHOR IN THE BAWDY VERSE OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD / GLYN PURSGLOVE

“CEASE THY WANTON LUST”: THOMAS RANDOLPH’S ELEGY, THE CULT OF VENETIA, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF CLASSICAL SEX / MARK LLEWELLYN

THE NYMPH’S REPLY NINE MONTHS LATER / REBECCA C. POTTER

LOWERING THE LIBERTINE: FEMINISM IN ROCHESTER’S “THE IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT” / TRACY WENDT LEMASTER

“UPON A LITTLE LADY”: GENDER AND DESIRE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LYRICS / KARI BOYD MCBRIDE

“FREEBORN JOY”: SEXUAL EXPRESSION AND POWER IN WILLIAM BLAKE’S VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION / LISA MARIE LIPIPIPATVONG

OF MELANCHOLY AND MIMESIS: SOCIAL BOND(AGE)S IN VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION / NOWELL MARSHALL

“HAPPY COPULATION”: REVOLUTIONARY SEXUALITY IN BLAKE AND SHELLEY / MONIKA LEE

“BURSTING JOY’S GRAPE” IN KEATS’ ODES / DANIEL BRASS

“IN THIS STRANG LABOURINTH HOW SHALL I TURNE?”: EROTIC SYMMETRY IN FOUR FEMALE SONNET SEQUENCES / C.C. BARFOOT

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI’S “GOBLIN MARKET”: THE EROTICISM OF FEMALE MYSTICS / BRITTA ZANGEN

“TO TAKE WERE TO PURLOIN”: SEXUALITY IN THE NARRATIVE POEMS OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI / FAHRÏ ÖZ

RENAISSANCE EROTIC IN THE POETRY OF JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS / J.D. BALLAM

THE BRILLIANCE OF GAS-LIT EYES: ARTHUR SYMONS’ EROTIC AUTO-VOYEURISM OBSERVED / R. VAN BRONSWIJK

THE EROTIC IN D.H. LAWRENCE’S EARLY POETRY / ANDREW HARRISON

TRIANGULATION OF DESIRE IN H.D.’S HYMEN / NEPHIE J. CHRISTODOULIDES

“SMILE, O VOLUPTUOUS COOL-BREATH’D EARTH”: EROTIC IMAGERY AND CONTEXT IN CONTEMPORARY RITUAL AUTHORSHIP / PEG ALOI

TWO TONGUES IN ONE MOUTH: EROTIC ELEMENTS IN NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL’S IRISH POETRY AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS / WIM TIGGES

SEX IN THE “SICK, SICK, BODY POLITIC”: TONY HARRISON’S FRUIT / SANDIE BYRNE

(UN)DRESSING BLACK NATIONALISM: NIKKI GIOVANNI’S (COUNTER)REVOLUTIONARY ETHICS / CHERYL ALEXANDER MALCOLM

BIBLIO-EROTIC AND JEWISH EROTIC CONFIGURATIONS IN GEORGIA SCOTT’S THE PENNY BRIDE / WOLFGANG GÖRTSCHACHER

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / C.C. Barfoot

INDEX I: SELECTED MOTIFS, TOPICS, THEMES / C.C. Barfoot

INDEX II: AUTHORS, TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS, SELECTED PROPER NAMES / C.C. Barfoot.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-4294-8100-5

94-012-0340-7

OCLC:

166292132

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401203401 DOI