Hermes' Lyre : : Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella / / Sherry Roush.
From the mysterious glosses by 'EK' in the poetry of Edmund Spenser, to the self-commentary in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, readers of literature have been fascinated by the comments, addenda, and footnotes added by authors to their own work. In this insightful and original work, She...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE: THE LYRE OF HERMES
- INTRODUCTION. Beyond Explication: Poets and Their Own Commentaries
- Part One. Dante and Boccaccio: The Emergence of Italian Poetic Self-Commentary
- 1. 'You might call it something of a commentary': Defining Terms in Dante's Vita Nuova and Convivio
- 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
- Part Two. Poetic Self-Commentary Reborn in Quattrocento Florence
- 3. 'Know thyself: Self-knowledge and New Life in Lorenzo de' Medici's Commentary on My Sonnets
- 4. 'Distorted in contrary senses': Girolamo Benivieni's Self- Commentative Reformation
- Part Three. Poetic Self-Commentary at the End of the Renaissance
- 5. 'It is neither formed nor form': Reading Beyond the Lines of Bruno's Dialogic Self-Commentary, the Heroic Frenzies
- 6. 'Did we not prophesy in Your name?': Settimontano Squilla as the Apocalyptic Seventh Trumpet in Tommaso Campanella's Vatic Project
- 7. Invocation, Interpretation, Inspiration
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX