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The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic

Author : Andrea Moudarres
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644530023

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The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic by Andrea Moudarres Pdf

In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, enmity is portrayed as internal, taking the form of tyranny, betrayal, and civil discord. Moudarres reads these works in the context of historical and political patterns, demonstrating that there was little distinction between public and private spheres in Renaissance Italy and, thus, little differentiation between personal and political enemies. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press

Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic

Author : Jo Ann Cavallo
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603293679

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Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic by Jo Ann Cavallo Pdf

The Italian romance epic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with its multitude of characters, complex plots, and roots in medieval Carolingian epic and Arthurian chivalric romance, was a form popular with courtly and urban audiences. In the hands of writers such as Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, works of remarkable sophistication that combined high seriousness and low comedy were created. Their works went on to influence Cervantes, Milton, Ronsard, Shakespeare, and Spenser. In this volume instructors will find ideas for teaching the Italian Renaissance romance epic along with its adaptations in film, theater, visual art, and music. An extensive resources section locates primary texts online and lists critical studies, anthologies, and reference works.

Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation

Author : Shannon McHugh,Anna Wainwright
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644531891

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Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation by Shannon McHugh,Anna Wainwright Pdf

The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The thirteen essays of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation present a radical reconsideration of literary production in post-Tridentine Italy. With particular attention to the much-maligned tradition of spiritual literature, the volume’s contributors weave literary analysis together with religion, theater, art, music, science, and gender to demonstrate that the literature of this period not only merits study but is positively innovative. Contributors include such renowned critics as Virginia Cox and Amadeo Quondam, two of the leading scholars on the Italian Counter-Reformation. Distributed for UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS

England's Asian Renaissance

Author : Su Fang Ng,Carmen Nocentelli
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532423

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England's Asian Renaissance by Su Fang Ng,Carmen Nocentelli Pdf

England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso

Author : Maggie Gunsberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351199179

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The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso by Maggie Gunsberg Pdf

"Maggie Gunsberg examines the ""poetica"" and ""poesia"" of Tasso in the context of the historical and cultural climate in which he lived. His epic theory is explored from the point of view of three rhetorical faculties current in 16th-century poetics: ""inventio"", ""dispositio"" and ""elocutio"". His discussion of ""dispositio"" reveals a fascinating similarity with ideas on art expressed by the Russian Formalists in the 1920s, a coincidence that can be attributed to the lasting influence of Aristotelian writings on plot. In her textual analysis of ""Gerusalemme liberata"", Dr. Gunsberg uses modern methodologies drawing on Freud, Lacan and the ideology of body language to develop new ways of reading the epic text. The two parts of this study, dealing with Tasso's theory and practice respectively, offer complementary aproaches that together illuminate his epic contribution."

The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism

Author : Jane E. Everson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198160151

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The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism by Jane E. Everson Pdf

The romance or chivalric epic was the most popular form of literature in Renaissance Italy. This book shows how it owed its appeal to a successful fusion of traditional, medieval tales of Charlemagne and Arthur with the newer cultural themes developed by the revival in classical antiquity that constitutes the key to Renaissance culture.

New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance

Author : Andrea Moudarres,Christiana Thérèse Purdy Moudarres
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004224308

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New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance by Andrea Moudarres,Christiana Thérèse Purdy Moudarres Pdf

This volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in shaping the modern Western worldview.

Advertising the Self in Renaissance France

Author : Scott Francis
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644530085

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Advertising the Self in Renaissance France by Scott Francis Pdf

Advertising the Self in Renaissance France explores how authors and readers are represented in printed editions of three major literary figures: Jean Lemaire de Belges, Clément Marot, and François Rabelais. Print culture is marked by an anxiety of reception that became much more pronounced with increasingly anonymous and unpredictable readerships in the sixteenth century. To allay this anxiety, authors, as well as editors and printers, turned to self-fashioning in order to sell not only their books but also particular ways of reading. They advertised correct modes of reading as transformative experiences offered by selfless authors that would help the actual reader attain the image of the ideal reader held up by the text and paratext. Thus, authorial personae were constructed around the self-fashioning offered to readers, creating an interdependent relationship that anticipated modern advertising. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press

Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France

Author : Emily E. Thompson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532386

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Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France by Emily E. Thompson Pdf

Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional techniques and materials were manipulated to express new realities. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy

Author : Andrea Celli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031074028

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Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy by Andrea Celli Pdf

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy analyzes the ideological function of references to the sea in the study of the Comedy undertaken by Enrico Cerulli, a scholar of Somali-Ethiopian languages, and a colonial governor of ‘Italian East Africa.’ Then it presents novel lines of inquiry on the reception and appropriation of the poem, such as the presence of Islamic sources in early commentaries of the Comedy, and cross-cultural allusions to Dante’s Hell in some graffiti on the walls of the Spanish Inquisition prison in Palermo. The image of the Mediterranean that seeps through the poem and through the history of its circulation is vivid yet hardly idyllic.

Performative Polemic

Author : Kathrina Ann LaPorta
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532119

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Performative Polemic by Kathrina Ann LaPorta Pdf

Performative Polemic is the first literary historical study to analyze the “war of words” unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV’s absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. As conflict erupted between the French ruler and his political enemies, pamphlet writers across Europe penned scathing assaults on the Sun King’s bellicose impulses and expansionist policies. This book investigates how pamphlet writers challenged the monarchy’s monopoly over the performance of sovereignty by contesting the very mechanisms through which the crown legitimized its authority at home and abroad. Author Kathrina LaPorta offers a new conceptual framework for reading pamphlets as political interventions, asserting that an analysis of the pamphlet’s form is crucial to understanding how pamphleteers seduced readers by capitalizing on existing markets in literature, legal writing, and journalism. Pamphlet writers appeal to the theater-going public that would have been attending plays by Molière and Racine, as well as to readers of historical novels and periodicals. Pamphleteers entertained readers as they attacked the performative circuitry behind the curtain of monarchy.

Moral Combat

Author : Gerry Milligan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487517281

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Moral Combat by Gerry Milligan Pdf

The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women’s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres, male and female writers raised questions about women’s right and ability to fight in combat. Treatise literature engaged scientific, religious, and cultural discourses about women’s virtues, while epic poetry and biographical literature famously featured examples of women as soldiers, commanders, observers, and victims of war. Moral Combat asks how and why women’s militarism became one of the central discourses of this age. Gerry Milligan discusses the armed heroines of biography and epic within the context of contemporary debates over women’s combat abilities and men’s martial obligations. Women are frequently described as fighting because men have failed their masculine duty. A woman’s prowess at arms was asserted to be a cultural symptom of men’s shortcomings. Moral Combat ultimately argues that the popularity of the warrior woman in sixteenth-century Italian literature was due to her dual function of shame and praise: calling men to action and signaling potential victory to a disempowered people.

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic

Author : Andrea Moudarres
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1644530007

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The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic by Andrea Moudarres Pdf

In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, enmity is portrayed as internal, taking the form of tyranny, betrayal, and civil discord. Moudarres reads these works in the context of historical and political patterns, demonstrating that there was little distinction between public and private spheres in Renaissance Italy and, thus, little differentiation between personal and political enemies. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature

Author : Jerold C. Frakes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253025685

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The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature by Jerold C. Frakes Pdf

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Whither Am I to Go?": Old Yiddish Love Song in a European Context -- 3. (Non- )Intersecting Parallel Lives: Pasquino in Rome and on the Rialto -- 4. Purim Play as Political Action in Diasporic Europe and/as Ancient Persia -- 5. Vashti and Political Revolution: Gender Politics in a Topsy-Turvy World -- 6. The Political Liminality of Mordecai in Early Ashkenaz -- 7. Feudal Bridal Quest Turned on Its Jewish Head -- 8. The Other of Another Other: Yiddish Epic's Discarded Muslim Enemy -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix: Elia Levita's Short Poems (English translation) -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y

Milton among Spaniards

Author : Angelica Duran
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644531730

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Milton among Spaniards by Angelica Duran Pdf

Firmly grounded in literary studies but drawing on religious studies, translation studies, drama, and visual art, Milton among Spaniards is the first book-length exploration of the afterlife of John Milton in Spanish culture, illuminating underexamined Anglo-Hispanic cultural relations. This study calls attention to a series of powerful engagements by Spaniards with Milton’s works and legend, following a general chronology from the eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, tracing the overall story of Milton’s presence from indices of prohibited works during the Inquisition, through the many Spanish translations of Paradise Lost, to the author’s depiction on stage in the nineteenth-century play Milton, and finally to the representation of Paradise Lost by Spanish visual artists.