Ariosto Today: Contemporary Perspectives - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802029671 ISBN 13 : 9780802029676

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2003

Synopsis

Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso is one of the masterpieces of the Renaissance, a work which, many argue, signalled the apogee of Renaissance fancy on the precipice of irony and decline. This collection of essays brings together twelve noted Italian and American scholars to provide a complete picture of Ariosto and all his works, covering topics such as historical criticism relating to Ariosto's place and time; philological investigations into the varying literary styles of the author, especially outside of the Furioso; Ariosto's extrinsic relationships with other literary traditions; and formal and thematic excavations of the immanent aesthetics of the Furioso.

Each essayist acknowledges the fact that Ariosto's creations are charged with allusions and allegiances variously inviting recognition or demanding the status of record. This reading of his works reveals that Ariosto was not a writer who believed, as it was previously thought, that literature is something escapist or fantastic in nature, but one who, in writing and re-writing his works, tried to re-interpret literary tradition while incorporating the new literary instruments that were available to him at the time: Ariosto's literary production is an integration of tradition and invention. This new reading of his work will be essential to any Italianist's library.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Donald Beecher is a professor in the Department of English at Carleton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802029671
• ISBN 13: 9780802029676
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Beecher Don, Ciavolella Massimo, Fedi Roberto
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible