Amy Levy and the accents of minor(ity) poetry

Scheinberg, Cynthia

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511484902.006

Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England

DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511484902.006

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Amy Levy and the accents of minor(ity) poetry

Cynthia Scheinberg

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“…He concludes that the dramatic monologue provided a form with which Robert Browning could "attempt to give voice to a Female Other as well as his persistent skepticism about the process of projection that such a voicing involved. Like Keats, Browning knew that poetry, like all art, can distort the Other into what she is not" [4]. In Browning's attempts to deauthorize the male speakers, real images of females emerge.…”

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Female Voice and Female Power in Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologues

2023

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From the perspective of narrative voice in female narratology, this paper first explores the silenced women, who lose right to voice, and the female narrators, who lose control over voice in Robert Browning's dramatic monologues. However, despite their inferiority in voice, which is what modern feminists fight to obtain, both those silenced female characters and female narrators represent a small and precious victory for female power. Silenced women show the power to make men fear losing their dominance. The female narrators, on the other hand, demonstrate complete adaptation to the maledominated society by unknowingly using male privilege for their own purposes. By studying the female voice in Browning's work and further analyzing texts, we can learn certain limitations of his time, his delicate observation of and unique insights into gender power relations, and probably his hope for females to break the established ethic.

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Amy Levy and Identity Criticism: A Review of Recent Work

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2007

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Amy Levy was a fin-de-siècle poet, novelist, and essayist. While critically acclaimed within her lifetime, she was all but forgotten by literary scholars until the 1980s, when her work was reintroduced to scholars as part of a larger project to integrate the writings of women and other minority groups into the canon. Levy falls into a number of these minority categories: she was not only female but also Jewish, and expressed non-normative understandings of sexual desire. Virtually all critical work on Levy since her reappearance in the field has been deeply rooted in her experiences as an her concepts of minority identity. In this review article, I examine the ways in which recent critical works on Levy that refine and expand preceding identity criticism. I argue that articles and book chapters by Iveta Jusová, Cynthia Scheinberg, and Linda Hunt Beckman are setting the new standard for identity criticism by examining the complex intersections of identity categories, and by linking identity to new fields of inquiry.Webs of strange patterns we weave (each owns) From color and sound; and like unto these, Soul has its tones and its semitones, Mind has its major and minor keys.-Amy Levy,'In a Minor Key'

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Female Voice and Female Power in Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologues

Female Voice and Female Power in Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologues

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