The book examines the poetics of locality and spirituality in narrative poetry (Books 1 and 2 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Marlowe’s Hero and Leander) and comedy (Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the anonymous city comedy The Family of Love). These disparate works are connected by their storytelling, an essential ingredient in the fashioning of spatial perceptions. They respond, albeit in different registers, to English clergymen’s theories of sacred space that emphasize men’s kinetic energy (expended in the search of redemption) and women’s emplacement in the godly home (where they provide comfort for peregrinating men). Narrative poetry, aimed at a primarily male audience, celebrates men’s salvational mobility while depicting women as static support for peripatetic men; it cleaves closely to the model advanced by English ministers. By contrast, comedy, a capacious dramatic form capable of providing incongruent perspectives (not least of all because the commercial theater depended on diverse, paying audiences), departs from the spatial ideals prescribed in theological treatises and offers tales of mobile women whose spiritual and domestic power moves outside the gendered paradigms promoted by England’s notable clerics.
This essay engages with Quentin Skinner’s
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
by extending its insights on the importance of
ornatus
, which lends beauty and force to oratory, to Margaret Cavendish’s
The Female Academy
. Understanding this comedic play about women’s relationship to rhetoric, educa...
The current research is aimed at investigating the crucial importance of women as a literary subject in the poetic works by Mahmoud Darwish, as in his poetry, women transcend simple personal feeling to signify the sacredness of homeland and national identity. On the basis of analysis of images in Darwish's poetry, the...
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This paper uses as a starting point Annis Pratt’s concept that “the novel per-
forms the same role in women’s lives as do the Eleusinian, dying-god, and witchcraft rituals,”
providing the reader with “the potential for personal transformation” through its archetypal pat-
terns. Specifically, it explores three contempor...
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The poet Zelda (Mishkovsky), who was raised in the Chabad Hasidic tradition and was once perceived as an exceptional and “other” figure in the Israeli literary landscape, is now regarded as one of the central and most influential voices in modern Hebrew poetry. This article examines how her deep affinity for the Bible...
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