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...Mark J. Mascia Mark]. Mascia TO JUDGE THROUGH VERSE: THE SONNETS OF LOPE DE VEGA'S LA CIRCE AND HIS ENGAGEMENT WITH LITERATURE I n Lope de Vega's collection of poetry, La Circe (1624), a number of sonnets offer observations on different aspects of poetry writing. The specific themes which Lope...

... an absence which in fact contains nothing. Here, the basic tendency of literary language to attract attention to itself is perfectly fulfilled, in a wholly (and solely) self-referential verbal construct. It is hardly surprizing that Mallarme's so-called "sonnet en yx" is chosen, toward the opening...

..., published in Lyon in 1555,10 as well as in a collection of new poems, Nouvelles oeuvres poetiques, published in Paris in 1573 and augmented by verse whose images, tone, and philosophy distinguish it from Tyard's earlier work. In Sonnet VII of the Erreurs amoureuses (vol.III), for example, the poet compares...

... with the philosophical positions expressed by Dante in vernacular poetry, Cecco dignifies Dante’s lyrics as vehicles of philosophical positions. He shows that Dante’s love poetry is not out of bounds for philosophical dispute. Rather, in Acerba Cecco uses both Dante’s love poetry (in particular the sonnet Io sono...

... closed literary circuit that binds together authors and readers (or more accurately in this instance, critics). Oronte has written a sonnet and asks Alceste's opinion of it-one amateur author soliciting the opinion of another author en puissance. The singularity (if there is any) of the sonnet...

... consists of three movements - exposition, development, and recapitulation - in which a composer states the central themes of the piece, draws them to a climax ultimately to return to the original themes, "Profusion du soir" is similarly circular, and encompasses three movements. In the sonnet, or first...

... of feeling for France, the Deffence and the Regrets, a sonnet collection written during Du Bellay's four-year stay in Rome. Specifically, I hope to demonstrate that both works express considerable ambivalence about a French identity, even a resistance to it. Indeed, the Regrets give strongest voice...

... elevations.8 In particular, the steep slopes on the right bank of the Clain opposite the city protected the Protestant troops led by Gaspard de Coligny. This location became known as the "rocher de Coligny." In her sonnet "Poitiers a Messieurs des Grandz]ours," Madeleine Des Roches refers to these local...

..., whom Huchon credits as the true authors of the texts written under Labe's name.4 While that theory has yet to be universally accepted, it adds an 2. Reading Labt?s sonnet sequence as a journal of the poet's "personal voyage," Gabriella S. Eschrich highlights the lasting written word as part...

..., mais aun monde de mots2 Et il a d'ailleurs mainte reprise montre la voie aux sei- ziemistes. Ici3 il s'appuie sur deux sonnets de Ronsard et un sonnet de Magny pour analyser Ie jeu de mots intertextuel generateur d'equivoque, en exami- anant des "incompatibilites lexematiques", ces formules premiere...

... petit sonnet petrarquizé, ou quelque mignardise d amour »1. Il admettra également qu en lisant « du Florentin les lam­ ent­a­bles vois » durant sa jeunesse, il ne pouvait « en le moquant, [s]e contenir de rire »2. Sa plume succombe toutefois rapidement à la mode de l écriture pétrarquiste car quelques...

.... As an example, we might begin by looking at the fifth sonnet of one of the modified sonnet sequences in The Next Loves , which I reproduce here in full in English and then in French: V Red t-shirt and husky voice we do yoga together much less strong than I am but so much more beautiful at the end...

...-61, for Bertram dal Bornio and Maestro Adamo should also be noted; these bring out the self-regarding and egotistical implications of the plea, and Inferno as mourning. ALLEGORY AND THE 'VITA NUOVA' 87 Though the sonnet following the observation of the pilgrims in Florence, "Deh peregrini che pensosi...

... distract her from her poetry and oblige her to adopt this plaintive mode. Sonnet 8 constitutes an apologia, again in the face of an imaginary accusation, for des Roches’s consequently plaintive tone: Quelqu’un mieux fortuné dira de ma complainte, Mes douloureux soupirs, et mon gemissement: “Cette...

... quatre elernents principaux - ou formalisations - de structure: 1. un groupement de textes spatialenlent symbolique; 2. des formes variantes de sonnets, chaque paragraphe ayant pour titre un signe mathematique; 3. une partie de GO; 4. une lecture isolee de chaque texte. Un art poetique se cree, ainsi...

.... A description of this ludic tradition is followed by an analysis of various examples of the Oulipian sonnet (poems by Bens, Queneau and Roubaud). These works, Consenstein contends, remember and question the fixed forms of poetry, create new rules for the literary game and at the same time "transform society's...

... deux sonnets afin de mettre en lumiere leur relation avec la tradition petrarquiste, P. Budini sur Ie sonnet italien, et, dans un second article, sur l'ambigulte du dernier vers du sonnet 17. F. Lecercle examine l'organisation du canzoniere pour montrer l'equivalence etablie entre aimer et ecrire. Les...

... involvement in one particular quarrel. She is considered by some to have composed the scathing anonymous Sonnet burlesque, sur la Phèdre de Racine , which was circulated in January 1677 and which triggered the querelle des sonnets over Racine’s Phèdre , which was performed at the Hôtel de Bourgogne...

..., an ode by Olivier de Magny and a sonnet by Claude de Taillemont, that explicitly liken Labe to Medusa. The critic Mireille Huchon has recently argued that these assimilations of Labe to Medusa are attempts to belittle the woman writer who is ostensibly being praised. She further notes that the Medusa...

...Michael Taormina Michael Taormina POETRY AND POWER: THEOPHILE'S "FRANCHISE" AND THE LIMITS OF CLIENTAGE, 1621-1623 I n 1623, Theophile de Viau is burned in effigy, then arrested and imprisoned on charges of lese-majeste divine. The catalyst for this persecution is a sonnet on the first page...