UID:
almafu_9958353246402883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442675711
Series Statement:
Toronto Italian Studies
Content:
Through numerous examples, Roush highlights the non-linear development of this mixed genre, and shows how poetic self-commentaries respond to unique literary, historical, and political exigencies, and offer keys to understanding the underlying poetic message.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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PREFACE: THE LYRE OF HERMES --
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INTRODUCTION. Beyond Explication: Poets and Their Own Commentaries --
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Part One. Dante and Boccaccio: The Emergence of Italian Poetic Self-Commentary --
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1. 'You might call it something of a commentary': Defining Terms in Dante's Vita Nuova and Convivio --
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2. 'Only the ploughshare aided by many clever talents cleaves the soil of poetry': Boccaccio's Earthly Vision of the Text and the Requisites for its Interpretation --
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Part Two. Poetic Self-Commentary Reborn in Quattrocento Florence --
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3. 'Know thyself: Self-knowledge and New Life in Lorenzo de' Medici's Commentary on My Sonnets --
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4. 'Distorted in contrary senses': Girolamo Benivieni's Self- Commentative Reformation --
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Part Three. Poetic Self-Commentary at the End of the Renaissance --
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5. 'It is neither formed nor form': Reading Beyond the Lines of Bruno's Dialogic Self-Commentary, the Heroic Frenzies --
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6. 'Did we not prophesy in Your name?': Settimontano Squilla as the Apocalyptic Seventh Trumpet in Tommaso Campanella's Vatic Project --
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7. Invocation, Interpretation, Inspiration --
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NOTES --
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442675711
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442675711
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442675711
