Despite the lack of critical attention to her poetry, Leapor is important in that she presents new possibilities for working-class woman’s poetry. Leapor writes from a dual perspective as a manual laborer and woman, who was considered in the eighteenth-century Britain as being unfit for writing poetry. Like other working-class poets of her time, she adopts the literary forms of middle or upper class writers, but she brings in new contents to their conventional forms. For example, instead of focusing on the idealized world of the pastoral, Leapor fills the pastoral with repugnant female body and dismal but realistic images of rural life. More importantly, Leapor follows the poetic tradition of Sappo. She makes a sharp critique of contemporary male-oriented sexual ideologies. She condemns the kind of love that only treats woman as an object of man’s desire for domination, and also the institution of marriage that relegates women to a state of slavery to men. As an alternative to these, Leapor suggests Sappic love and female friendship. Leapor is one of the earliest feminist working-class poets in the sense that her poems offer an important critique of the unequal sexual relationship in her time, though it may not be a solution to it.
목차
I. 시작하는 말 II. 리퍼가 고쳐 쓰는 전원시 III. 리퍼의 시에 나타난 사포적 사랑 IV. 맺음말 Works Cited Abstract
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]