Author: Paul ColilliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Petrarch's Allegories of Writing
Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self
Author: Gur ZakPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521114675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.
Writing Beloveds
Author: Aileen Astorga FengPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487511809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in Writing Beloveds, Feng recovers the initial political purposes in Latin prose and traces how poetry set the terms for gender, agency, and power in early modern Italy. By revealing the literary motifs in men’s and women’s writing about gender she maps how certain figures in Petrarch’s writing transmitted gendered ideas of power and reflected a growing anxiety about women as public figures. This work includes nuanced analyses of poetry, linguistic treatises, debates on imitation, representations of gender and epistolary correspondence in Latin and Italian. Writing Beloveds is a landmark study that highlights the new social reality of women writers in early modern Europe.
Petrarch's Triumphs
Author: Konrad EisenbichlerPublisher: Pegasus Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Spenser Encyclopedia
Author: Albert Charles HamiltonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802079237
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
A reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works and influence. Over 700 entries by 422 contributors, an index and extensive bibliography.
On Allegory
Author: Mary CarrPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152756374X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This collection of essays focuses on the ubiquity of the allegorical imagination in pre-modern western culture, and participates in a recent wave of resurgence of interest in the complex practices and ideas usually defined by the word "allegory". The contributors study the impact of the allegorical imagination on the production, reception and interpretation of literature, as well as its function as a tool of philosophical and theological enquiry, and its role in shaping the visual arts. Essays focus on subjects as varied as the general theories on allegory, allegory's relation to the human imagination, its usefulness or even inevitability as a human mode of cognition and its potential for the encoding of meanings that may be political, historical, religious and amorous. They discuss canonical figures such as Petrarch, Boccaccio, Boethius, Hans Memling, Pico della Mirandola, King James I and John Donne, but extend to include neglected but equally important figures such as Stephen Hawes or Thomas Usk as well as thematic approaches less concerned with issues of authority and authorship. As such the collection is a testimony to the variety, complexity, and adaptability of "allegory" at the heart of medieval western civilisation.
Assembling the Lyric Self
Author: Olivia HolmesPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816633432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
As she moves from an overview to a consideration of particular authors (including Guittone d'Arezzo and Nicolo de' Rossi) and manuscripts, she both demonstrates the narrative and structural subtlety of many of the works and reveals unsuspected phases in a gradual historical shift."--BOOK JACKET.
Augustine in the Italian Renaissance
Author: Meredith J. GillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521832144
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Examines facets of the relationship between Saint Augustine and the thinkers of the Italian Renaissance.
The Cambridge Companion to Allegory
Author: Rita CopelandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosophy, mystical religion, and hermeneutics. Once the earliest histories and themes of the allegorical tradition have been presented, the volume turns to literary, intellectual, and cultural manifestations of allegory through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The essays in the last section address literary and theoretical approaches to allegory in the modern era, from reactions to allegory in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to reevaluations of its power in the thought of the twentieth century and beyond.
Boccaccio’s Corpus
Author: James C. KrieselPublisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268104522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
In Boccaccio’s Corpus, James C. Kriesel explores how medieval ideas about the body and gender inspired Boccaccio’s vernacular and Latin writings. Scholars have observed that Boccaccio distinguished himself from Dante and Petrarch by writing about women, erotic acts, and the sexualized body. On account of these facets of his texts, Boccaccio has often been heralded as a protorealist author who invented new literatures by eschewing medieval modes of writing. This study revises modern scholarship by showing that Boccaccio’s texts were informed by contemporary ideas about allegory, gender, and theology. Kriesel proposes that Boccaccio wrote about women to engage with debates concerning the dignity of what was coded as female in the Middle Ages. This encompassed varieties of mundane experiences, somatic spiritual expressions, and vernacular texts. Boccaccio championed the feminine to counter the diverse writers who thought that men, ascetic experiences, and Latin works had more dignity than women and female cultures. Emboldened by literary and religious ideas about the body, Boccaccio asserted that his “feminine” texts could signify as efficaciously as Dante’s Divine Comedy and Petrarch’s classicizing writings. Indeed, he claimed that they could even be more effective in moving an audience because of their affective nature— namely, their capacity to attract, entertain, and stimulate readers. Kriesel argues that Boccaccio drew on medieval traditions to highlight the symbolic utility of erotic literatures and to promote cultures associated with women.