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In the English Renaissance, the Petrarchan lover was the figure of excess par excellence. In poems and plays of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, his excessive desire and grief were expressed through a rhetoric characterised by a ...
Rémi Vuillemin
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Camilla's traces: Movement as an analytical key to literary history
Abstract In this article, we develop a framework for the analysis of ‘movement’ in literary texts. We focus on characters, translation and transmission, thereby going beyond, on the one hand, a stylistic analysis of individual passages, and, on the other hand, the linear enchainment of scenes and summaries underlying much of the narratological ...
Eva von Contzen, Karin Kukkonen
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Staging Bruno’s Scripted Emblems: Anti-Petrarchism and Mannerism in Love’s Labour’s Lost [PDF]
Among the several works in Italian vernacular that Giordano Bruno surreptitiously printed during his stay in London in1583-85, De gli eroici furori is the work that exerted the greatest impact on Elizabethan contemporary poets and dramatists.
Eriksen, Roy
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Sit venia verbo: A case for dermacriticism
Abstract This article introduces the term “skinnedness” as a complementary notion to what we commonly refer to as skin. The term allows for a fundamental conceptual discussion that brings together human skin, animal skin, and other types of organic or artificial skin, such as fruit skin or the soft outer layer of a doll.
Irina Hron
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The theme of the dream of the beloved, object of special interest by the Spanish studies (Palley 1983; Maurier 1990, Alatorre 2003), links Iberian poets of the Siglo de Oro to Italian Petrarchist poetry, often through direct textual subsidiaries, both at
Cristina Acucella
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The Good Death in Early Modern Europe
ABSTRACT The inevitability of death does not change its variability. In The Hour of Our Death (1981), Philippe Ariès positioned the sudden, unexpected, mass death of epidemics (especially from the Black Death) against the personalized, domesticated death for which one had time to prepare. The domesticated death, so he argued, appeared during a specific
Cynthia Klestinec, Gideon Manning
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International audienceDesportes’ petrarchism is usually defined as a neo-petrarchism, i. e. an imitation of the stylistic and thematic material he found in various Venetian anthologies.
Balsamo, Jean
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L’Éloge de la laideur dans la littérature antipétrarquiste
On the basis of the analysis of an academic discourse from the philosopher Antonio Rocco in paradoxical praise of ugliness (1630), we distinguish several ways of dealing with ugliness within the Italian literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
Jean-Pierre Cavaillé
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A question of genre: Philip Melanchthon's oratorical debut at Wittenberg University
Abstract The speech Philip Melanchthon gave on 29 August 1518 at the University of Wittenberg to initiate his professorship is an impressive piece of humanist idealism. Already its title, De corrigendis adolescentiae studiis (On the reform of the studies for the young) reveals his earnest ambitions in introducing reform.
Isabella Walser‐Bürgler
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reservedGli Asolani, dopo questo percorso, è comprensibile siano stati in grado di distanziarsi ostentatamente sia dal latino che dal volgare “ibrido” dei predecessori. L’opera di Bembo trae la sua importanza e la sua fortuna dall’aver individuato negli
BASSO, FRANCESCA
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