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Carved in living laurel: the sonnet sequence and transformations of idolatry
Author(s) -
KambaskovićSawers Danijela
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
renaissance studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1477-4658
pISSN - 0269-1213
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00365.x
Subject(s) - idolatry , sonnet , poetics , the renaissance , perspective (graphical) , art , literature , sequence (biology) , aesthetics , poetry , art history , philosophy , visual arts , religious studies , biology , genetics
This essay analyses the use of idolatry in representations of desire in six Renaissance sonnet sequences (Petrarch, Sidney, Spenser, Drayton, Daniel and Shakespeare). Seeking to offer a fresh perspective on the relationship between idolatry, gender dynamics and auto‐poetics, the article reviews the changes in the use of idolatrous imagery to argue that they indicate changes in the authorial priorities relating to representations of desire and the writing self.