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Love's wounds : violence and the politics of poetry in early modern Europe
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"Investigates widespread metaphors of dismemberment, constraint, cannibalism, wounding, and tyranny in early modern French, English, and Italian literature. Through its comparative, inter-genre stu...
"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"--
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- Creator
- Cynthia N. Nazarian
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 299 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1501708260, 1501708252, 9781501705229, 9781501708251, 1501705229, 9781501708268
- OCLC
- ocn957696644, ocn957705145, ocn992483103
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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