{"id":49,"date":"2017-01-28T13:53:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=49"},"modified":"2017-01-28T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T18:53:51","slug":"history-of-sexuality-re-sonnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/history-of-sexuality-re-sonnets\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Sexuality re: Sonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really liked the Foucault reading, more than I expected actually, and reading Marlowe&#8217;s sonnet and then Donne and Raleigh&#8217;s response, I couldn&#8217;t help but think about how it often feels like certain poems &#8220;confess&#8221; more than others. Marlowe&#8217;s sonnet is troubled and ultimately picked apart by Donne and Raleigh. It seems to have more meaning when read side by side with their responses. Re-reading Marlowe&#8217;s sonnet\u00a0after reading all three, it seemed flimsy and\u00a0almost absurd. There seems to be a certain pleasure, if that&#8217;s the word, in seeing the &#8220;truth&#8221; of the original sonnet unveiled. As Foucault says, &#8220;we must ask whether, since the nineteenth century, the\u00a0<em>scientia sexualis<\/em>&#8211; under the guise of its decent positivism- has not functioned, at least to a certain extent, as an\u00a0<em>ars erotica&#8221;<\/em> (70).\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em>Foucault&#8217;s article ultimately made me wonder how poetry is involved in &#8220;the production&#8221; of truth&#8211; this production perhaps requires a dialogue\u00a0both between poems and within them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really liked the Foucault reading, more than I expected actually, and reading Marlowe&#8217;s sonnet and then Donne and Raleigh&#8217;s response, I couldn&#8217;t help but think about how it often feels like certain poems &#8220;confess&#8221; more than others. Marlowe&#8217;s sonnet is troubled and ultimately picked apart by Donne and Raleigh. It seems to have more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}