The Sonnet Over Time: A Study in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and BaudelaireUniversity of North Carolina Press, 1988 - 174 頁 Although many authors have produced successful sonnets, Sandra Bermann demonstrates that Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Baudelaire are clearly among those who best exploit the genre's potential for rhetorical and thematic diversity. Through a series of close readings informed by a striking combination of linguistics, contemporary theory, and history, she highlights a variety of rhetorical strategies: metonymy in the Petrarchan sonnet, mobile metaphors in the Shakeperean, and allegory and irony in the Baudelairean. She simultaneously underscores transformations in meaning and voice in each poet's rendition of traditional themes. Bermann concludes, however, that throughout these rhetorical and thematic changes, the sonnet maintains its focus on the poetic self. Whether this "I" marks a drive toward a strong, integral presence or emphasizes instead internal division and alienation, the very fact that the self remains so central lends some insight into the sonnet's longevity in the West. |
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Accademia della Crusca allegory anaphoric artistic associated Baude Baudelaire Baudelaire's Baudelairean sonnet century cerva classical complex couplet courtly love create Dante death difference dimension displacement distinctive dramatic earthly effects emphasis evokes external fact figures fleurs Francesco Petrarca grammatical human hyperbaton imagery images imaginative instance ironic irony Italian Jakobson language Laura lauro linguistic literary logical lyric collection lyric poetry meaning ment metaphor metonymic mistress modern mort musique nature occhi Oeuvres complètes onymic paradoxical particularly patterns Petrarch's Petrarchan sonnet play poem poem's poet poet's poetic voice poetry precisely pronoun quatrain reader reader's mind reference referential Renaissance repetition rhetorical rhyme seems semantic sense sestet Shakespeare's Sonnets Solo e pensoso sonnet form sonnet tradition sonnet turn space speaker's speaking speare's stanza structure style synecdoche synesthesia syntactic syntax takes temporal tercet thematic themes third person thou tion tive transform tropes underscore verse vie antérieure words