Format:
xiii, 299 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781501705229
Content:
"Investigates widespread metaphors of dismemberment, constraint, cannibalism, wounding, and tyranny in early modern French, English, and Italian literature. Through its comparative, inter-genre studies of Petrarch and five major Petrarchan poets of the sixteenth century, Love's Wounds shows how love poetry was actively transformed into a powerful tool for defining the nation and for reflecting on and shaping state authority"--
Content:
Abjection, violence and parrhesia from Petrarch's Canzoniere to Maurice Scève's Délie -- Violence, imitation and the politics of abjection in Du Bellay's Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse and L'olive -- Martyrdom, self-dissection and the ethics of metaphor in d'Aubigné's Hécatombe à Diane and Les tragiques -- Petrarchan tyranny and lyric resistance in Spenser's Amoretti and The faerie queene -- Conclusion : the paradoxes of pain : Shakespeare beyond Petrarchism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501708251
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501708268
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Nazarian, Cynthia Nyree, 1980- author Love's wounds Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
;
Liebeslyrik
;
Unterordnung
;
Souveränität
;
Geschichte 1300-1600
