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Article: The Subject of Desire: Petrarchan Poetics and the Female Voice in Louise Labe.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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Deborah Lesko Baker. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1996. xvi + 249 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 1-5575-3088-2.
In her introduction to The Subject of Desire: Petrarchan Poetics and the Female Voice in Louise Labe, Baker states that her goal "is to present a detailed, integrated study of all four texts making up the author's 1555 CEuvres . . . incorporating early modern feminist and intertextual critical perspectives in an effort to show how Labe accomplished a fundamental reassertion of women's capacity for self-expression and a crucial restructuring of the identity of the traditional Renaissance lyric speaker" (4-5). This premise at first might appear bold when ...
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