The Quest for Epic : : From Ariosto to Tasso / / Sergio Zatti; Dennis Looney.
Translated here for the first time into English, Sergio Zatti?s The Quest for Epic is a selection of studies on the two major poets of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, by one of the most important literary critics writing in Italy today. An original and challenging work,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction / Russell Ascoli, Albert
- 1. The Furioso between Epos and Romance
- 2. The Quest: Considerations on the Form of the Furioso
- 3. Turpin's Role: Poetry and Truth in the Furioso
- 4. Tasso versus Ariosto?
- 5. The Shattering of the Chivalric World: Ariosto's Cinque canti
- 6. Christian Uniformity, Pagan Multiplicity
- 7. Errancy, Infirmity, and Conquest: Figures of Conflict
- 8. Torquato Tasso: Epic in the Age of Dissimulation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index