商品簡介
Vatalaro (English, Merrimack College) examines the work of Percy Shelley through his devotion to music and, particularly, to the women who created it through singing or playing instruments. Vatalaro sees much of Shelley's poetry as exemplifying the feminine as music and music as feminine. The musical metaphor appears time and again, in Prometheus Unbound as well as poems written for three women, Sophia, Emily and Jane. Each of these women had some musical talent and became the object of Shelley's "fantasy" which made them symbols rather than people. Vatalaro argues that for Shelley, power, music, authority and sexual yearning, gratified or not, are all mingled in his poetry, with music as the metaphor binding the others together. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Paul Vatalaro is an associate professor in the English Department at Merrimack College, USA.
