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Nisha, Shwet, Umesh Kumar, Shivangi Choudhary, Jay Prakash Vishwakarma, Rajesh Mahadeva, Vinay Gupta, Shivani Kampani e Saurav Dixit. "Analyzing W.B. Yeats Selected Poetry Through Feminist Epistemology: A Reassessment". BIO Web of Conferences 86 (2024): 01113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20248601113.
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W.B. Yeats stands out as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. His symbolic poetry and his political and philosophical ideas are all prominently reflected in his work. During his lifetime, he was deeply influenced by a few remarkable women who made significant contributions to his poetic development and played a pivotal role in shaping his personality. Yeats's poems chosen for this study offer a profound insight into the predicament of women within various socio-cultural and economic contexts. This analysis will explore how Yeats projected female voices through multiple images and symbols in poems such as 'A Prayer for My Daughter,' 'Among School Children,' and 'Leda and the Swan.' While Maud Gonne is widely recognized as a central figure in Yeats's love poems, it's essential to acknowledge that she wasn't the sole woman who influenced the artist's evolution. Others, like Lady Gregory, Olivia Shakespeare, and George Hyde-Lees, the wife of W.B. Yeats, played significant roles in the later phase of his life, particularly in developing his philosophical treatise, "A Vision." In his final poems, Yeats attempted to convey his ultimate understanding of love, emphasizing its perfection in the unbroken relationship between the body and the mind. Works like 'Among School Children,' 'Leda and the Swan,' 'The Second Coming,' 'Sailing to Byzantium,' 'A Man Young and Old,' and many other universally acclaimed poems were inspired by his complex relationships with Maud Gonne and others.
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Firoja Parvin. "Identity Exploration and Representation of Motherhood in the Poetry of Ranu Uniyal". Creative Saplings 2, n. 02 (25 maggio 2023): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.02.287.
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Ranu Uniyal, one of the important personalities of confessional mode, is always under review for her obsessive openness and pervasiveness, but she reaches her destination by displaying the sterling image of patriarchy. Uniyal’s poems not only present the everyday lived reality of ordinary women but also the strong independent women having power and who must outbrave the societal regulations and norms to assert their identity as human beings full of love and affection. Ranu Uniyal’s poems incorporate the strong experience both as a mother and as the daughter of powerful mothers whose personalities shape their identity as women. Among the modern Indian poets who are writing in English today, she has been ranked with such poetesses of dissatisfaction and discontent as Kamala Das. By engaging with the everyday life of her mother and her motherhood, the poet tries to understand the reality of universal motherhood in a poetic way. The studies of Ranu Uniyal’s poems add a new dimension to Indian poetry in English through the subtle and honest probing of man-woman relationships. She does not debunk the whole ideology of motherhood in her writing. Instead, her critical understanding of motherhood paves the path for women’s agency, autonomy, and identity regarding motherhood.
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GAIDASH, Anna. "THE ELDERLY CHARACTERS IN DRAMAS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS". Astraea 2, n. 1 (2021): 42–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/astraea.2021.2.1.03.
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One of the disturbing issues represented in Williams’ dramas is old age along with aging. The paper analyzes elderly characters in the network of playwright’s selected texts of different periods, in particular, “The Glass Menagerie”, “Sweet Bird of Youth”, “The Night of the Iguana” and “Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” as well as his lesser-known works “The Frosted Glass Coffin” and “This is the Peaceable Kingdom or Good Luck God” from the perspective of literary gerontology. The representative of the literary traditions of the American South, Williams demonstrates in his dramas the vulnerability and fragility of aging. The tragedy of old age in Williams’ plays is detected in the old age/youth antinomy. The character of a lonely aging woman or a spinster takes often the center stage. Williams’s treatment of his female characters’ (Princess Alexandra and Flora Goforth) sexuality challenges the ageist assumption that older women do not have or should not have intimate relationships. The dramatist renders the mentioned above characters sexually visible in the older woman/younger man relationships without pretence or concealing the corporeal transformations. The close reading of six dramas by Tennessee Williams demonstrates the anxiety of aging and old dramatis personae reflecting social ills. The study discerns the foreshadowing of the epigraphs (from poetry by E. Cummings, H. Crane, E. Dickinson, W. Yeats) implying the anxious aspects of aging and “third age” in four major Williams’s works; the dramatist’s late style represented by “The Frosted Glass Coffin” and “This is the Peaceable Kingdom or Good Luck God” manifests the explicit gerontophobia through rather grotesquely realistic than poetic imagery in the texts’ plot-lines.
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Murtazaliev, Ahmed Magomedovich. "LYRICS OF GADZHI GAZIMIRZAEV: PROBLEMS AND POETICS". Herald of the G. Tsadasa Institute of Language, Literature and Art, n. 25 (30 aprile 2021): 25–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.31029/vestiyali25/5.
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The article deals with the study of the lyrics of the modern Avar poet Gadzhi Gazimirzaev (1927–1994), the identification of the peculiarities of its problems and poetics. The complex and intense moral-ethical, socio-philosophical and personal searches of the 1960s and early 1990s were reflected in it. The poetry of G. Gazimirzaev is rich in thematic variety. His lyrical poems about eternal feelings of love and fidelity, about the difficult relationship between a man and a woman, about homeland and patriotism win over with deep sincerity, purity and nobility of a romantic nature. The lyric poetry of G. Gazimirzaev is consonant with the artistic quest of his era, directed to the study of the modern world; it aspires to high truths and values, comprehension of great social and spiritual problems of man, revealing the moral foundations of human existence, the roots of goodness and love, truth and conscience.
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Åkerström, Ulla. "Collective Motherliness in Italy. Reception and Reformulation of Ellen Key’s feminist ideas in Sibilla Aleramo and Ada Negri (1905-1921)". Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 10, n. 1 (7 novembre 2019): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.15845/bells.v10i1.1389.
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This paper aims to explore how the Swedish writer Ellen Key’s ideas on collective motherliness and on the relationship between man and woman were received and reformulated in the articles, poetry and prose of Sibilla Aleramo and Ada Negri before and after the First World War. The ideas in Aleramo’s autobiographical novel Una donna (1906) were close to Key’s theories, but her autobiographical novel Il passaggio (1919) was quite different. Ada Negri’s idealistic view of motherhood, as expressed in her collection of poetry Maternità (1904), corresponded to parts of Key’s conception of motherhood, while Negri’s dream of single motherhood and the realisation of that ideal is emphasized in her autobiographical novel Stella mattutina (1921).
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KASTON TANGE, ANDREA. "Constance Naden and the Erotics of Evolution: Mating the Woman of Letters with the Man of Science". Nineteenth-Century Literature 61, n. 2 (1 settembre 2006): 200–240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2006.61.2.200.
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Many of the poems by Constance Naden (1858-1889) focus on exploring the intersections of poetry and science, an intriguing effort given that at the end of the Victorian period, these were assumed to be opposite enterprises. Even more interesting is the fact that despite cultural assumptions about science being the province of the masculine mind, Naden's work both purposefully asserts the ability of women to engage with science and challenges the Victorian cultural tendency to offer "scientific" justifications for notions of female intellectual inferiority. This essay examines the quartet of poems called "Evolutional Erotics," the work of hers that has generally garnered attention in the small flurry of scholarly activity recently focused on Naden, against the larger context of her Complete Poetical Works (1894). In these four witty, playful poems,Naden uses the languages of science-evolution, botany, chemistry, physics-to create metaphors and conceits through which to explore the courtships of four fictional couples. Taken together with her long poems, Naden's work presents heterosexual lovematches that interrogate the triangulated relationship between science, poetry, and British Victorian gender-based expectations. Largely through her invocation of Charles Darwin's ideas of evolution, and in verse resembling that of Erasmus Darwin in its conjunction of science and human sexuality, Naden uses her poetry to model the necessary fluidity of disciplinary boundaries. Moreover, in merging the "male" scientific mind with a feminist poetics, Naden is a writer-and, by implication, posits a reader-whose facility with both science and poetics indicates an evolutionary step toward respecting women's intellect.
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Karmakar, Goutam. "A Theological Study of Nissim Ezekiel’s Religious Outlook". Asian Journal of Humanity, Art and Literature 2, n. 2 (31 dicembre 2015): 71–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v2i2.296.
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As the centuries passed by, the galaxy of Indian English Poetry become increasingly crowded. But the scenario was not like this during the early years. It is because only a few stars shine there, and Nissim Ezekiel is the pole star. His poetry contains so many aspects, themes, motives and symbols that sharpen and shape his poetic world. His poetry often shows irony, emotion, love, man-woman relationship, self- consciousness, a sense of discipline and self – criticism. He shows his concern for both modern and urban art and culture with the touch of Indian ethos and local colour. But as an Indian poet, he shows his thinking about God and religion in a vivid way. He also shows his changing view towards God and Indian theology in his poems. In this paper, I have tried to show Ezekiel’s religious outlook and aspects through some of his verses.
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Prabowo, Paulus Dimas. "Kajian Didaktis Mengenai Cinta Lelaki dan Wanita dalam Kidung Agung". HUPERETES: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristen 2, n. 1 (25 dicembre 2020): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.46817/huperetes.v2i1.28.
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A popular interpretation of the Song of Solomon states that the love poetry in it is a description of the relationship between God and His people. The Jews interpreted it as the relationship between Yahweh and Israel (allegorical), while Christians interpreted it as the relationship between Christ and the church (Christological). However, if one considers the genre of the book, the use of the Hebrew word dod, and the close praise for Solomon and the Shulamite, it would be argued that the Song of Songs contains a celebration of eros love between man and woman as an offering God that can be enjoyed. Song of Songs also presents another dimension in all of its articles, namely the values about the love relationship between a man and a woman. This article is written to explore the didactic aspects of the love relationship between a man and a woman in the entire Song of Songs. The method to be used is thematic analysis, using a literal perspective that takes into account the rules of Hebrew poetry. Finally, it found the didactic aspects of love in it including the right timing, a binding marriage, a charming character, equality, strong loyalty, role as a friend, communication, and solving problems quickly.Penafsiran yang populer terhadap Kidung Agung menyatakan bahwa puisi cinta di dalamnya merupakan penggambaran dari hubungan antara Tuhan dengan umat-Nya. Orang Yahudi memaknainya sebagai hubungan antara Yahweh dengan umat Israel (alegoris), sedangkan orang Kristen memaknainya sebagai hubungan antara Kristus dengan gereja (Kristologis). Namun bila mempertimbangkan genre kitab, pemakaian kata Ibrani dod, dan adanya puji-pujian fisik yang begitu intim antara Salomo dengan gadis Sulam, maka akan dimengerti bahwa Kidung Agung berisi selebrasi tentang cinta eros antara lelaki dan wanita sebagai pemberian Tuhan yang perlu dinikmati. Tidak sekedar urusan seksualitas dan sensualitas, Kidung Agung juga menyajikan dimensi lain di dalam seluruh pasalnya, yakni nilai-nilai pengajaran tentang hubungan cinta antara seorang laki-laki dan seorang wanita. Artikel ini ditulis untuk mengupas aspek didaktis tentang hubungan cinta seorang laki-laki dan seorang wanita di dalam seluruh kitab Kidung Agung. Metode yang akan dipakai adalah analisis tematis, dengan memakai perspektif literal yang memperhatikan kaidah-kaidah puisi Ibrani. Akhirnya, ditemukanlah aspek didaktis tentang cinta di dalamnya meliputi waktu yang tepat, pernikahan yang mengikat, karakter yang memikat, persamaan derajat, kesetiaan yang kuat, peran sebagai sahabat, komunikasi yang hangat, dan penyelesaian masalah dengan cepat.
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Aasen, Kristi. "»Helt kun i mand og kvinde«. Grundtvigs tanker om den fruktbare dobbelthet". Grundtvig-Studier 42, n. 1 (1 gennaio 1991): 86–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/grs.v42i1.16060.
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»Whole Only in Man and Woman«. Grundtvig’s thoughts about the fruitful doublenessBy Kirsti AasenGrundtvig lived in the Age of Enlightenment, a time worshipping reason, which he was strongly opposed to. His conviction after a long life was that real and true reason has its source in emotion. As against reason, thinking and the intellect, which Grundtvig calls male values, he sees sympathy, susceptibility, and compassion as female characteristics. It was because of her openness and susceptibility that the Virgin Mary could embrace Jesus and give birth to him. And by virtue of her sympathy Mary Magdalene was the first one to hear the news of the resurrection and to pass it on.The sensitivity of a woman rarely qualifies her as a communicator. At a time when the very idea was unthinkable, Grundtvig goes so far as to claim the necessity of female deans. On the whole, he encourages the woman to use her intellectual abilities, i.e., the male qualities, which are also part of her. But even more, he calls on the man to recognize the emotional and female part of himself. For .the Heart is always a Woman., he says in one of his hymns. Thus he manages to say that the basic human feature in both woman and man is emotion, residing in the heart.When Grundtvig emphasizes the female values so strongly, it is because he recognizes that they have been suppressed, not in order to disparage the male values. He is convinced that the male and female features together constitute what is truly human - a conviction he finds substantiated in the Bible (in Paul’s 1 Corinthians, 11,11-12).Hence, Grundtvig concludes that God must be both woman and man, and so is every human being, created in his image. And the relationship between Creator and creation is above all a relationship of the heart.The man-woman theme remains with Grundtvig through his whole life. But undoubtedly it is strengthened through impressions he received from East European culture. The indirect openness to the Greek is probably due to his interest in the Church Father, Irenaeus, who, in the struggle with the Gnostics, became a defender of natural human life. But more directly, we know that the Greek church service manual »Leiturgikón«, which Grundtvig borrowed from the Royal Library in January 1837, fascinated him so as to leave traces in his sermons and hymns. In an article (p. 225 in .Vision and Song - Poetry and Theology in Grundtvig., Gad 1989), Christian Thodberg points out how the Greek church makes more of the women in the New Testament than does the Western European church, something that deepens his preoccupation with the natural and the emotional. And Kaj Thaning claims (p. 214 in .Man First - Grundtvig’s Struggle with Himself., Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1963) that it was a woman whom Grundtvig met during his visit to England as early as 1830 who came to have a decisive importance in this context. Thaning maintains that it was this Greek-oriented woman who really opened Grundtvig’s eyes, enabling him to understand the doubleness in human life, so that a reconciliation became possible for him between spirit and heart, thought and emotion. As Grundtvig had to borrow a foreign culture and a woman’s eye to discover the fruitful doubleness in life - and hence its wholeness, so our contact with Eastern Europe today may open our eyes to a rediscovery of ideas which we have so long overlooked in our worship of reason and our materialism.
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VICINUS, MARTHA. ""Sister Souls": Bernard Berenson and Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper)". Nineteenth-Century Literature 60, n. 3 (1 dicembre 2005): 326–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2005.60.3.326.
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In the 1890s the poet Michael Field-the lesbian aunt-and-niece couple, Katharine Bradley (1846 -1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913)-were close friends with the art connoisseur Bernard Berenson (1865-1959). Under the influence of Walter Pater,the three avidly discussed the connections uniting the artwork, viewer, and artist. Critics have long known that Cooper fell passionately in love with Berenson, but no one has examined this relationship closely. This essay uses the Michael Field poems, letters, and diaries to explore the impact of falling in love with a man on the Bradly-Cooper relationship and their poetry. Cooper felt that she and Berenson were faun-like creatures who instinctively understood each other on a deeper level than the physical. Berenson sought Cooper's ethereal independence while he was courting a married woman;Cooper turned to him when she wanted a more separate life from her aunt. Berenson never forgot Cooper's intense emotional response to visual art, a response that represented his aesthetic ideal. Cooper experienced a burst of creativity, reliving her intoxicating love in verse and prose. Bradley, as the older woman, struggled to reconcile herself to this attractive, destructive male intrusion into Michael Field's poetic and personal "oneness." The three drew on the emotions that they stirred in each other as a source of inspiration, but each discovered that emotion can outrun aesthetics.
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Durham, Alexandra. "Capies, tu modo tende plagas repetition and inversion of the hunting metaphor in Roman love elegy /". Diss., Connect to the thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1478.
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Prezioso, Debra Nicole. "Love and Repair". Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/424.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucfBachelors
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Jolivet, Jean-Christophe. "Allusion et fiction épistolaire dans les "Héroïdes" : recherches sur l'intertextualité ovidienne /". Rome : Paris : École française de Rome ; diff. De Boccard, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38807426b.
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Abdullahi, Hannatu T. She talks, he talks: Poems. Kaduna, Nigeria: Informart, 1998.
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DeCroo, Rodney. Shining like an apple on fire. Vancouver: Burning Cradle Press, 2003.
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Cumberbatch, Angela. The girl who cried boy. Brampton, Ont: Giant Beaver Publications, 2006.
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Ruffin, Paul. The book of boys and girls. Hammond, LA: Louisiana Literature Press, 2003.
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Fromstein, Joe. Loveplay: A conversation in rhyme. Toronto: White Knight Publications, 2004.
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Bassett, Audrey G. Flip side of me: (poetry in erotica). [Philadelphia?]: Xlibris Corp, 2008.
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Bloomfield, Harold H. Love secrets for a lasting relationship. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
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Nwagwu, Mark. Cat man dew and other poems. Ibadan, Nigeria: BookBuilders--Editions Africa, 2012.
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Nnodi, Stella Uchechi. Biographies are a joke: (short stories & poems of a survivor). Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria: Sevhage Publishers, 2018.
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Egan, Bowes. On trial at midnight. Nial Mor, Killybegs, Ireland: Brehon Press, 1985.
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Cox, Rosanna. "Milton, Marriage, and the Politics of Gender". In John Milton. British Academy, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264706.003.0007.
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This chapter investigates the seventeenth-century cultural and historical context of Milton's portrayal the relationship of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost. This approach aims to bring the intellectual, doctrinal, and political debates with which he engaged in his portrayal of the relationship between the sexes. The chapter examines Milton' understanding of the ideas of woman, womanhood, and the cultural debates about the relationship of man and woman in marriage and in the household, and the ways in which these conceptions formed his political and theological outlook. Milton's thoughts on gender and marriage, which were grounded in reformation and seventeenth-century Puritan teachings, in political debates on family and political obligation, and in the ideological and imaginative relationships between politics and gender, formed his prose and poetry on the relationship of man and woman.
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Bagheri, Asal. "The Blue-veiled: A Semiological Analysis of a Social Love Story". In ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad, 140–58. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474477611.003.0009.
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This chapter explores how, through formal filmic grammar, Banietemad has depicted love and relations between men and women in this film. This chapter also demonstrates how Iranian cinema chastely explores love and expresses its own “Iranian form” regarding relationships between man and woman, through constructing space in the way that traditional Iranian architecture does (external spaces for guests and internal spaces for family and private activities), but also through using stylistic devices reminiscent of classical Persian poetry.
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Breckling, Molly M. "“Vehement and consuming longing, mixed with dread and anxiety”". In Hidden Treasures, 57–88. Liverpool University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781638040408.003.0003.
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During the years that he devoted to the poetry of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Mahler had numerous particularly well-documented love affairs: his tryst with Marion von Weber, his romance with soprano Anna von Mildenburg, his on-again-off-again romantic relationship with close friend and confidant Natalie Bauer-Lechner, and his courtship and eventual marriage to Alma Schindler. Each of these relationships offered the composer unique challenges, and we can observe his shifting thoughts on love by way of the songs he composed during this time. Mahler composed several songs during this time that entertain themes of marital fidelity, explore romances on the verge of collapse, love affairs that end in tragedy, and the extraordinary lengths that a man might go to in order to be with the woman he loves.
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Figueira, Dorothy M. "Die Flambierte Frau: Sati in European Culture". In Sati, the Blessing and the Curse, 55–78. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195077742.003.0003.
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Abstract The German Romantic poet Karoline von Günderrode was a woman unlucky in matters of love. She lost Carl von Savigny to Cunegonde Brentano. Her affection for Clemens Brentano could not withstand his extravagant tastes. She then met Frederick Creuzer, a man noteworthy to historians of religion as the author of the light classic, Das Symbolik. He influenced Karoline intellectually, enlarging her knowledge and introducing her to Indian thought. Under Creuzer’s tutelege, Günderrode’s work was inspired by various themes from Indian mythology and philosophy. Works such as Die Erscheinung, Ein apokaliptisches Fragment, and the Geschichte eines Brahminen all express a vague longing for the Absolute, a belief in perfection of the soul through earthly denial, and the vision of death as a surrender to an Elemental Spirit. Not surprisingly, Karoline’s stimulating relationship with Creuzer developed into romance. Unfortunately, the Heidelberg philologist was already married to an older woman, whose wealth enabled him to pursue the life of a scholar.
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Miller, Nina. "Aestheticized Love and Sexual Violence". In Making Love Modern, 63–85. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195116045.003.0004.
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Abstract In her anonymous essay for the Nation, “Poet out of Pioneer,” Taggard reflected at length on what she saw as the severe disparity in strength and power between her parents, quite explicitly treating their situation as paradigmatic of “the problem” of heterosexual relationships. Several of the other women invited to contribute to the Nation’s 1926 series on “These Modern Women” gave similar attention to the dynamics between their par ents and similarly seemed to assume that marriage was a site of conflict between a strong and thwarted woman and a man who fails to “be a man.” Any number of contemporaneous influences might have fostered this com mon perception, for though they were all “modern” as professional and independent women, these essayists had widely varying backgrounds. But sexology certainly made its subtle, scientific contribution to the general climate. Havelock Ellis, for example, warned that a woman’s “frequently repeated orgasms ... render her vigorous and radiant [but] exert a depressing effect on her husband,” whose pride and health she must learn to protect.