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Marlowe’s “Slack Muse”: All Ovids Elegies and an English Poetics of Softness

Mann, Jenny C.

Modern philology, 2015-08, Vol.113 (1), p.49-65 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

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  • Título:
    Marlowe’s “Slack Muse”: All Ovids Elegies and an English Poetics of Softness
  • Autor: Mann, Jenny C.
  • Assuntos: Classical poetry ; Elegies ; English literature ; Impotence ; Literary criticism ; Literary style ; Love poetry ; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-93) ; Masculinity ; Narrative poetry ; Philology ; Poetic feet ; Poetic meter ; Poetry ; Poets
  • É parte de: Modern philology, 2015-08, Vol.113 (1), p.49-65
  • Descrição: Christopher Marlowe's Elegies attempt to fulfill this paradoxical request, drawing on Ovid's poetry in order to present its readers with a discourse of vernacular poetic invention that does not rely solely on metaphors of virility to describe its genesis and effects. Rather, Marlowe's Elegies present "softness" and its gendered corollary--effeminacy--as the ground of masculine poetic invention. Marlowe's assertion of the potency of a soft poetics must be understood in the context of a classical and humanist tradition that routinely denounces flaccid or nerveless expression, conflating poetic and rhetorical style with approved forms of masculinity. Here, Mann argues that the narrative of masculine subjection contained within Ovid's Amores is redoubled in Marlowe's translation, as the English poet subjects himself and his language to the influence of a superior model. However, because Ovid's Amores depict effeminization and even impotence as a means of poetic production, the abjection of the English translator proves to be enabling rather than disabling.
  • Editor: Chicago: University of Chicago Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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