The Myth of Eros in Michael Field’s Sapphic Project: from a New Materialism to a Tragic Determinism
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https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.43.119Palabras clave:
Michael Field, Long Ago, Safo, Eros, Paradoja, MitoResumen
El objetivo de este artículo consiste en examinar cómo Katharine Bradley y su sobrina Edith Cooper reinterpretan la figura de Safo en conexión directa con el mito de Eros en Long Ago (1889), el primer poemario que compusieron bajo el pseudónimo de Michael Field. Con este propósito en mente, seleccionamos una serie de poemas dirigidos a la deidad griega del amor, realizamos un análisis detallado de los mismos y demostramos que las Fields componen una mitografía dramática que explora la identidad paradójica del dios y, al mismo tiempo, revela toda una verdad intemporal inherente al propio mito de Eros: el amor constituye un fenómeno ambivalente que crea, inspira y eleva tanto como destruye, oprime y mata.
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CARSON, A. (1986): Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay. Princeton, PUP.
DUBOIS, P. (2015). Sappho. London-New York, I.B. Tauris.
EVANGELISTA, S. (2009): British Aestheticism and the Ancient Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
FIELD, M. (1889): Long Ago. London, George Bell and Sons.
HEIDEGGER, M. (1962): Being and Time. Trans.: J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson. New York, Harper Perennial.
LANDES, D.A. (2013): The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary. London, Bloomsbury.
LEIGHTON, A. (1992): Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart. New York, Harvester Wheatsheaf.
MADDEN, E. (2008): Tiresian Poetics: Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1888‒2001. Madison, Fairleigh Dickinson UP.
MAXWELL, C. (2001): The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness. Manchester, MUP.
O’GORMAN, F. (2016): «Michael Field and Sapphic Fame: My Dark-Leaved Laurels Will Endure». Victorian Literature and Culture, 34.2, pp. 649-661.
OLVERSON, T.D. (2009): «Libidinous Laureates and Lyrical Maenads: Michael Field, Swinburne and Erotic Hellenism». Victorian Poetry, 47.4, pp. 759-802.
OVID (1814): The Epistles of Ovid. Trans. and ed.: J. Nunn, R. Priestly, R. Lea, and J. Rodwell. Perseus Digital Library (on-line: <perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0085%3Apoem%3D15> [accessed: 15 April 2019]).
PLATO (1925): «Symposium». Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9. Trans.: H.N. Fowler. Cambridge (MA), Harvard UP.
PRIMAMORE, E.A. (2009): «Michael Field’s Sapphic Communities: Constructing the Transgressive Feminine Sensibility in Long Ago (1889)». The Michaelian, 1 (on line: <thelatchkey.org/Field/MF1/primamorearticle.htm> [accessed: 18 April 2019]).
PRINS, Y. (1999): Victorian Sappho. Princeton, PUP.
REYNOLDS, M. (2003): The Sappho History. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
THAIN, M. (2007): ‘Michael Field’ Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Fin de Siècle. Cambridge, CUP.
THORNTON, B.S. (1997): Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality. Oxford, Westview Press.
SMITH, W. (1876): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Vol. II. London, John Murray.
WHITE, C. (1996a): «The Tiresian Poet: Michael Field». In: Leighton A. (ed.), Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader. London, Blackwell, pp. 148-161.
––– (1996b): «Flesh and Roses: Michael Field’s Metaphors of Pleasure and Desire». Women’s Writing, 3.1, pp. 47-62.
––– (1990): «Poets and Lovers Evermore: Interpreting Female Love in the Poetry and Journals of Michael Field». Textual Practice, 4.2, pp. 197-212.
WILLIAMSON, M. (1995): Sappho's Immortal Daughters. Cambridge (MA), Harvard UP.
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2020-10-02
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Cantillo Lucuara, Mayron Estefan. 2020. “The Myth of Eros in Michael Field’s Sapphic Project: From a New Materialism to a Tragic Determinism”. Anuario De Estudios Filológicos 43 (October): 119-36. https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.43.119.
