Lost Objects: Patterns of Desire in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Labe, and Ronsard

Download or read book Lost Objects: Patterns of Desire in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Labe, and Ronsard written by Michelle Elizabeth Donah and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation provides an essential link between postmodernism and Early Modern studies. Detailed readings of the sonnets of Petrarch, Labe, and Ronsard re-evaluate imitatio as a process of repetition compulsion. Each author stands doubly removed in this discussion, once from the beloved, whom each addresses in the sonnet, and once from the original source of imitation. Lack thus supplies imitatio this impetus as it serves as both performance and subject in the sonnets of each author.