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- Title
Looking Strategically: Feminist and Queer Aesthetics in Michael Field's Sight and Song.
- Authors
Ehnenn, Jill
- Abstract
The article focuses on feminist and aesthetics aspects in "Sight and Song," a collection of thirty-one picture-poems depicting paintings viewed during their travels to some of Europe's finest galleries. The paintings are both secular and sacred, most by Grand Masters of the Italian Renaissance. The poems lack fixed forms, although some can be described, like many other lyrics, as variations on the sonnet. The small body of critical study on Sight and Song asserts its artistic merit and importance in establishing the "ontology and value" of the picture-poem as a subgenre; and has observed that the text's explorations of female beauty negate traditional notions of space and temporality and negotiate dualities such as transience and permanence, pleasure and pain, emotion and intellect.
- Subjects
LYRIC poetry; FEMINISM; AESTHETICS; SONNET; PAINTING; MIDDLE Ages; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0015