RT Article
T1 Louise Labe's Conditional Imperatives: Subversion and Transcendence of the Petrarchan Tradition
JF The sixteenth century journal
VO 21
IS 4
SP 523
OP 541
A1 Baker, Deborah Lesko
LA English
PB Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
YR 1990
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1802330941
AB This study explores two of Louise Labe's most renowned sonnets in order to address her complex relationship to the Petrarchan tradition. A detailed examination of the rhetorical structure of these sonnets reveals that Labe subverts and transcends the ontological model of the poetic speaker in Petrarch as well as in her Lyonnais compatriot Maurice Sceve. Labe's poetic project is shown finally to replace the tortured and fragmented lyric speaker of her predecessors with a new, unified reconstitution of the poetic subject.
DO 10.2307/2542185