Nazarian, Cynthia Nyree. Love's wounds : violence and the politics of poetry in early modern Europe

Folger bibliographic ID: 351514
Folger call number: PN1181 .N39 2016
Folger holdings ID: 500131

"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 shows how love poetry was actively transformed into a powerful tool for defining the nation and for reflecting on and shaping state authority"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

Extended title: Love's wounds : violence and the politics of poetry in early modern Europe / Cynthia N. Nazarian

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 European poetry Love poetry, European Violence in literature Literature and state Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Europe

author: Nazarian, Cynthia Nyree, 1980-
subject: Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374