「연인의 탄식」과 글 읽기의 유혹
Seduction of Reading in ‘A Lover’s Complaint’
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Shakespeare’s elegy, ‘A Lover’s Complaint’ is his own intervention in the complaint genre: unlike as in the traditional convention of the complaint genre, Shakespeare’s lover is a woman. Shakespeare leaves the question unsolved to the last line of the poem if the woman lover as narrator is sincere and authentic. The narrator of the poem as a female masochist enjoys herself in rewriting and re-membering her past suffering of betrayal in the love affair with the beautifully androgynous young man. The young man is a poor sonneteer taking advantage of his verbal witchcraft on innocent women as Othello does on Desdemona. The maid listening to the young man projects herself into love victims of the young man. She is the writerly reader par excellence in reconfiguration of the love narratives of the young man with other women fallen in his suggestion. The maid is a ventriloquist of multiple voices blurring the boundary of speaker and listener, writer and reader, the masculine and the feminine, and the oral and the written. The shift of her voices is equivalent to the changes in the subject positions, from author to audience, and vice versa. In denying the didacticism of the complaint genre she affirms the jouissance of seduction of reading into desires of the Other, which is a mirror of self-love. The fickle maid represents the transition from the oral culture to the literary with the advent of reader avaricious of vicarious experiences.
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Shakespeare’s elegy, ‘A Lover’s Complaint’ is his own intervention in the complaint genre: unlike as in the traditional convention of the complaint genre, Shakespeare’s lover is a woman. Shakespeare leaves the question unsolved to the last line of the poem if the woman lover as narrator is sincere and authentic. The narrator of the poem as a female masochist enjoys herself in rewriting and re-membering her past suffering of betrayal in the love affair with the beautifully androgynous young man. The young man is a poor sonneteer taking advantage of his verbal witchcraft on innocent women as Othello does on Desdemona. The maid listening to the young man projects herself into love victims of the young man. She is the writerly reader par excellence in reconfiguration of the love narratives of the young man with other women fallen in his suggestion. The maid is a ventriloquist of multiple voices blurring the boundary of speaker and listener, writer and reader, the masculine and the feminine, and the oral and the written. The shift of her voices is equivalent to the changes in the subject positions, from author to audience, and vice versa. In denying the didacticism of the complaint genre she affirms the jouissance of seduction of reading into desires of the Other, which is a mirror of self-love. The fickle maid represents the transition from the oral culture to the literary with the advent of reader avaricious of vicarious experiences.
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