Petrarch in Britian: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 Years - Couverture rigide

 
9780197264133: Petrarch in Britian: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 Years
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0197264131 ISBN 13 : 9780197264133
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Petrarch was Italy's second most famous writer (after Dante), and indeed from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries he was much better known and more influential in English literature than Dante. His Italian love lyrics constituted the major influence on European love poetry for at least two centuries from 1400 to 1600, and in Britain he was imitated by Chaucer, the Elizabethans, and other lyric poets up until the end of the eighteenth century. With Romanticism Dante ousted Petrarch from his pre-eminent position, but in our post-Romantic age, attention has now started to swing back to Petrarch.

This volume is the most comprehensive and up to date survey of Petrarch's literary legacy in Britain. Starting with his own views of those whom he called the 'barbari Britanni', the volume then explores a number of key topics: Petrarch's analysis of the self; his dialogue with other classical and Italian authors; Petrarchism and anti-Petrarchism in Renaissance Italy; Petrarchism in England and Scotland; and Petrarch's modern legacy in both Italy and Britain. Many important texts and poets are considered, including Giordano Bruno, Leopardi, Foscolo, Ascham, Sidney, Spenser, and Walter Savage Landor.

The twenty chapters collected here are written by major scholars of Petrarch in the UK and Italy and will be essential reading for scholars and students of both Italian and British literature, as well as comparative literature.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Letizia Panizza, Editor, Research Fellow, Italian Department, Royal Holloway, University of London

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0197264131
ISBN 13 
9780197264133
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
386
Éditeur
McLaughlin Martin, Panizza Letizia, Hainsworth Peter
Coordonnées du fabricant
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