Antoinette Deshoulières’s Cat

IF 0.2 0 LITERATURE, ROMANCE
Helena Taylor
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This article examines the poet Antoinette Deshoulières’s (1638–94) interventions in a number of querelles. It focuses on a series of poems that appeared in 1678–79, early in her career, and written as if from her pet cat. Often dismissed for their frivolity, these poems instead reveal Deshoulières’s engagement with the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns and the debates about the animal machine. While such interventions constituted an important strategy for making a name for herself, they are characterized by elusiveness. Although that elusiveness has been read as a gendered strategy of modesty, this article shows instead that her equivocal and even parodic, burlesque way of intervening in the two quarrels is consistent with her skepticism and presents readers with a hermeneutical challenge that disrupts the rhetorical logic of a quarrel. Deshoulières’s interventions invite us to reflect on the roles of gender, genre, and interpretation in early modern quarrels and their study.
安托瓦内特·德舒利的猫
本文考察了诗人安托瓦内特·德舒利(1638-94)对一些querelle的干预。这本书聚焦于1678年至1679年间的一系列诗歌,这些诗歌出现在她职业生涯的早期,仿佛是在她的宠物猫身上写的。这些诗歌常常因其轻浮而被驳回,相反,这些诗歌揭示了德舒利对古今之争和关于动物机器的辩论的参与。虽然这种干预是她成名的重要策略,但其特点是难以捉摸。尽管这种难以捉摸被解读为一种性别化的谦虚策略,但本文表明,她在两次争吵中采取的模棱两可甚至是拙劣的、滑稽的干预方式与她的怀疑主义是一致的,并向读者提出了一种解释学挑战,破坏了争吵的修辞逻辑。deshouli的介入邀请我们反思性别、体裁和解释在早期现代争吵及其研究中的作用。
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Romanic Review
Romanic Review Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
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期刊介绍: The Romanic Review is a journal devoted to the study of Romance literatures.Founded by Henry Alfred Todd in 1910, it is published by the Department of French and Romance Philology of Columbia University in cooperation with the Departments of Spanish and Italian. The journal is published four times a year (January, March, May, November) and balances special thematic issues and regular unsolicited issues. It covers all periods of French, Italian and Spanish-language literature, and welcomes a broad diversity of critical approaches.
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