Kissing the Wild Woman : : Concepts of Art, Beauty, and the Italian Prose Romance in Giulia Bigolina's ‹em›Urania‹/em› / / Christopher Nissen.
Giulia Bigolina's (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wild Woman, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina's greatest surviving work, in...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Reformation of the Prose Romance
- 2. Writing a Portrait
- 3. Ekphrasis and the Paragone
- 4. The Sight of the Beautiful
- 5. Kissing the Wild Woman
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index