The Age of Criticism : : The Late Renaissance in Italy /

The Age of Criticism : : The Late Renaissance in Italy / / Baxter Hathaway.

In The Age of Criticism five key concepts of the literary criticism synthesized in the late Renaissance in Italy are examined in depth to show how the shape of literary attitudes in the whole modern world was considerably influenced and determined by sixteenth-century Italian philosophers and litera...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Hathaway, Baxter,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1962
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Part One: Poetry as Imitation
  • 1. The Theory of Imitation in the Renaissance
  • 2. Patrizi’s Attack on Mimesis
  • 3. Instruments, Subjects, and Modes of Imitation
  • 4. Were Empedocles and Lucretius poets?
  • 5. Is poetic imitation limited to imitation of action?
  • 6. Are prose fictions poems?
  • 7. Imitation as Idol Making and Particularization
  • Part Two: Universals and Particulars
  • 8. What a world should be and what it is
  • 9. Tasso’s Perfect Exemplars
  • 10. Truth and Reality
  • 11. Universality as Unity
  • 12. Penumbral Ideas
  • 13. The Grandeur of Generality
  • Part Three: A Purgation of Passions
  • 14. Catharsis: A New Implement
  • 15. Robortelli and Maggi
  • 16. The Development of the Opposition
  • 17. Consolidations
  • 18. Moving by Pathos or Ethos
  • 19. Syntheses
  • 20. Omnibus Purgations
  • Part Four: The Poetic Imagination
  • 21. The Revival of Classical Ideas
  • 22. Speroni and Tomitano
  • 23. Girolamo Fracastoro
  • 24. Paduans and Aristotelians
  • 25. Platonism, Love, Beauty, and Florence
  • 26. Mazzoni’s Immediate Predecessors
  • 27. Mazzoni and Bulgarini
  • 28. Mazzoni on Dreams
  • 29. Tasso’s Magic Realism
  • Part Five: The Poet's Art and the Poet's Furor
  • 30. Platonists and Aristotelians
  • 31. Patrizi’s Synthesis
  • 32. Christians and Aristotelians
  • 33. The Four Furors and the Music of the Spheres
  • 34. True wit is nature to advantage dress’d
  • INDEX

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