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Addressees and Readers in Lyric Poetry
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This chapter explores the role of the woman addressee in lyric poetry, the most intersubjective and inter-gendered of genres. I look at the ways in which early Italian poets construct their beloveds as agents, rather than passive elements, of poetry: as addressees, respondents, interlocutors, readers, editors, and commissioners. After an analysis of the figure of the incipitarian ‘Donna’ of many early poems, I explore the vocal figure of the woman-as-critic, and the ways in which she is ventriloquized by the male poet to give voice to a ‘more earnest’ outlook on courtly poetry. I then move on to Dante’s serial stagings of the invention of women interlocutors in the Vita Nuova, and explore them as part of Dante’s engaging reinvention of the ‘mixed vernacular audience’ of courtly poetry.
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This chapter explores the role of the woman addressee in lyric poetry, the most intersubjective and inter-gendered of genres.
I look at the ways in which early Italian poets construct their beloveds as agents, rather than passive elements, of poetry: as addressees, respondents, interlocutors, readers, editors, and commissioners.
After an analysis of the figure of the incipitarian ‘Donna’ of many early poems, I explore the vocal figure of the woman-as-critic, and the ways in which she is ventriloquized by the male poet to give voice to a ‘more earnest’ outlook on courtly poetry.
I then move on to Dante’s serial stagings of the invention of women interlocutors in the Vita Nuova, and explore them as part of Dante’s engaging reinvention of the ‘mixed vernacular audience’ of courtly poetry.
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