Femininity in Spenser’s Amoretti
| Název práce v češtině: | Femininity in Spenser’s Amoretti |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | Femininity in Spenser’s Amoretti |
| Klíčová slova: | Renesanční literatura|Edmund Spenser|ženskost|Francesco Petrarca|Samuel Daniel|sonet|gender|Amoretti|Delia|Zpěvník|Canzoniere|Rime sparse |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | Renaissance literature|sonnet|Edmund Spenser|gender|Francesco Petrarch|femininity|Amoretti|Canzoniere|Samuel Daniel|Delia|Rime sparse |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2015/2016 |
| Typ práce: | bakalářská práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd. |
| Datum přihlášení: | 30.11.2016 |
| Datum zadání: | 30.11.2016 |
| Schválení administrátorem: | zatím neschvalováno |
| Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: | 07.12.2016 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 04.09.2018 00:00 |
| Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: | 09.08.2018 |
| Datum proběhlé obhajoby: | 04.09.2018 |
| Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: | odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná |
| Oponenti: | PhDr. Soňa Nováková, CSc. |
| Zásady pro vypracování |
| The aim of my thesis would be to analyse Edmund Spenser’s handling of femininity in his series of sonnets Amoretti, which is by literary critics generally considered quite unusual for its time. I wish to examine to what point this is true and clarify the manner in which this manifests. My reading will be informed by recent feminist theory. The thesis will focus mainly on the behaviour and depiction of Spenser’s Lady of the Sonnet, comparing it to that in similarly themed sonnets written by his contemporaries (and the “Father of the Sonnet” Petrarch). It will also analyse the evolution of sonnets’ male narrator’s view on love and his Lady, and take into account the various cultural influences on Spenser’s representation of love and beauty.
I wish to research this topic because, after reading Joan Curbet’s “Edmund Spenser’s Bestiary in the ‘Amoretti’” and R. W. Dasenbrock’s “The Petrachan Context of Spenser’s Amoretti,” I have come to feel it deserves a wider recognition, as too few literary critics seem to have approached the feminine aspect of Amoretti – most appear to focus their full attention on The Faerie Queene. Yet I would argue that Spenser’s sonnets also seem to provide ample material for such an analysis. While there are fewer sources available on Spenser’s short works than on that of other sonneteers, there is sufficient amount of literature on English Renaissance sonnets’ treatment of women and on Spenser’s writing in general. I have therefore set out to remedy this lack of sources by creating an analysis of my own. I would estimate the time of submission of the thesis as July 2016. |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
| Davies, Stevie. Feminine Reclaimed: The Idea of Woman in Renaissance Literature. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1986.
Campana, John. The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability and Ethics of Masculinity. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Curbet, Joan. “Edmund Spenser’s Bestiary in the ‘Amoretti’ (1595).” Atlantis 24.2 (2002): 41-58, JSTOR Dasenbrock, Reed Way. “The Petrachan Context of Spenser's Amoretti.” PMLA 100.1 (1985): 38-50, JSTOR Ogle, M. B. “The Classical Origin and Tradition of Literary Conceits.” The American Journal of Philology 34.2 (1913): 125-152,. Sanchez, Melissa E. “‘Modesty or comeliness’: the predicament of reform theology in Spenser's Amorettiand Epithalamion.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 65.1 (2012): 5-24. |