Love's Wounds : : Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe / / Cynthia N. Nazarian.
Love's Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourteenth-century Italy, this book shows how Petrarch established a pattern of inequality between suffering poet and exalted Beloved rooted in political...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Vulnerability and the Countersovereign Voice
- 1. Strategies of Abjection: Parrhēsia and the Cruel Beloved from Petrarch's Canzoniere to Scève's Délie
- 2. Violence and the Politics of Imitation in Du Bellay's La Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse and L'Olive
- 3. Martyrdom, Anatomy, and the Ethics of Metaphor in d'Aubigné's L'Hécatombe à Diane and Les Tragiques
- 4. Petrarchan Tyranny and Lyric Resistance in Spenser's Amoretti and The Faerie Queene
- Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Pain: Shakespeare beyond Petrarchism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index