Love's wounds : violence and the politics of poetry in early modern Europe /
"Investigates widespread metaphors of dismemberment, constraint, cannibalism, wounding, and tyranny in early modern French, English, and Italian literature. Through its comparative, inter-genre studies of Petrarch and five major Petrarchan poets of the sixteenth century, Love's Wounds show...
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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| ISBN: | 9781501708251 1501708252 9781501708268 1501708260 1501705229 9781501705229 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Abjection, violence and parrhesia from Petrarch's Canzoniere to Maurice Scève's Délie
- Violence, imitation and the politics of abjection in Du Bellay's Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse and L'olive
- Martyrdom, self-dissection and the ethics of metaphor in d'Aubigné's Hécatombe à Diane and Les tragiques
- Petrarchan tyranny and lyric resistance in Spenser's Amoretti and The faerie queene
- Conclusion : the paradoxes of pain : Shakespeare beyond Petrarchism.