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'So don't give me a line from a poet that's dead': Revisionist strategies in the sonnets of Patience Agbabi and Carol Ann Duffy
'So don't give me a line from a poet that's dead': Revisionist strategies in the sonnets of Patience Agbabi and Carol Ann Duffy
2022 •
Iida Tervo
This thesis analyses the sonnet works of Patience Agbabi and Carol Ann Duffy through the theory of literary revisionism. Through analysing a representative selection of sonnets from the respective poets’ poetry production, this thesis theorises three revisionist strategies which Agbabi and Duffy use to pay homage to the sonnet tradition, claim the tradition for themselves as marginalised writers, and critically revise the sonnet tradition by exposing or subverting the conventions which have facilitated its nature as an androcentric and Eurocentric medium. Additionally, this thesis argues that Agbabi and Duffy revise the sonnet tradition on the level of form and content, theorising a connection between structural and thematic properties in the sonnet genre. Keywords: the sonnet, tradition, Patience Agbabi, Carol Ann Duffy, revision, feminist theory, queer theory
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Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England
False Muscle Memory in Marlowe and Nashe
2016 •
Robert Darcy
This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic experiences heightened or deflated by the presence of memory? Can a sexual act be commemorative? Can an act of memory be eroticized? How do forms of romantic desire underwrite forms of memory? To answer such questions, these authors examine drama, poetry, and prose from both major authors and lesser-studied figures in the canon of Renaissance literature. Alongside a number of insightful readings, they show that sonnets enact a sexual exchange of memory; that epics of nationhood cannot help but eroticize their subjects; that the act of sex in Renaissance tragedy too often depends upon violence of the past. Memory , these scholars propose, reshapes the concerns of queer and sexuality studies-including the unhistorical, the experience of desire, and the limits of the body. So too does the erotic revise the dominant trends of memory studies, from the rhetoric of the medieval memory arts to the formation of collective pasts. John S.
Queering Sonnets: Sexuality and Transnational Identity in the Poetry of Patience Agbabi
Queering Sonnets: Sexuality and Transnational Identity in the Poetry of Patience Agbabi
Manuela Coppola
The emergence of queer diaspora studies has demanded increasing attention to the ways in which women writers have challenged the heterocentrism of dominant conceptions of diaspora. The theoretical intersection of queer studies with diaspora and black studies in relatively recent years has produced a vital reassessment of the black studies project. In the attempt to reconceptualize black queer and black diaspora, Rinaldo Walcott, in particular, has stressed the importance of a broader geographical and comparative framework, and offered crucial insights into the spatial redefinition of queer studies. Walcott's new black queer theory provides a particularly useful framework in this article to analyse the poetic work of Patience Agbabi in Transformatrix (2000) and Bloodshot Monochrome (2008) as queer poetic praxis. A British poet of Nigerian ancestry, Agbabi combines her experience as a spoken-word artist and performer with her literary background as an Oxford-educated poet. Straddling the British lyric tradition and performance poetry, her work explores the sonnet form while revealing the complexities of gender and sexuality. This article agues that, as she steps beyond safe boundaries of literary conventions in a creative interplay of formal constraint and experimentation, Agbabi queers the sonnet form, destabilizing normative gay, lesbian, black, men's and women's identities.
PhD thesis - Queer Subjectivities, Closeting and Non-normative Desire in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry and Life Writing - award date February 2016.
2016 •
Dr. Caroline S Baylis-Green
ABSTRACT This thesis aims to elucidate previously obscured aspects of nineteenth-century women’s writing, through the development of original approaches to the reading of gender ambiguity, queer subjectivities and non-normative desire. It challenges the removal of the closet from feminist, historicist scholarship and constructions of female sexuality based on an adherence to romantic friendship and lesbian continuum models. This research proposes original work, which breaks the links between Michel Foucault’s dating of the disciplinary coding of hom*osexuality and the assumed relationship with the closet. New readings are proposed which acknowledge, define and foreground multi-functional closets, inside and outside of texts. In refusing this removal this study also aims to open up a space for the consideration of closets as protective and supportive spaces as well as symptoms of oppression. Underexplored links between literary form, the repelling of social restriction and the relationship between literary conventions and non-binary positions are also highlighted to emphasise the radical potential of performative subjects in women’s writing. This project proposes the recovery of queer selves and subjective forms of identification in the work of seven/eight women writers Anne Lister, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Adelaide Anne Procter, Michael Field and Amy Levy, spanning the long nineteenth century. It also offers new approaches by combining cross-genre analysis of poetry and life writing. Using activist language largely in advance of academic discourse, it asks questions about the changing significance of queerness as language and metaphor. This thesis uses diverse social, religious and literary bodies to illustrate the strength of same-sex communities and their role in providing safe spaces for queer, desiring interactions in the nineteenth century.
The Fifth Humor: Ink, Texts, and the Early Modern Body
2012 •
Kristen Polster
