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Letters - Couverture souple

Andreini, Isabella

 
9781649590855: Letters
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1649590857 ISBN 13 : 9781649590855
Editeur : Iter Press, 2023

Synopsis

A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte.

Isabella Andreini (1562-1604) was a commedia dell'arte diva who toured Italy and France as part of the Compagnia dei Comici Gelosi. Letters is a collection of epistles written by Andreini in fictional, anonymous, male, and female voices, a "hermaphroditic" alternation of gender unlike any that had been seen in letter writing to that time. In her letters, Andreini remade the humanistic epistolary genre into a distinctive fusion of literary and dramatic performance. The guise of epistolary intimacy cedes to a knowing artificiality, which allows for the emergence of Andreini's modern critique of the gendered self as a uniform entity. The collection centers on love and examines--from surprising perspectives--pertinent issues such as death, the birth of a girl, prostitution, patriarchal marital practices, love in old age, courtiership, country and city life, human nature, and defenses and critiques of both sexes.

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À propos de l'auteur

Isabella Andreini (1562-1604) was a renowned prima donna of the European stage. Also a poet, playwright, and author of philosophical letters, she was one of the most published Italian women writers in the seventeenth century.

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Éditeur
Iter Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1649590857
ISBN 13 
9781649590855
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
331
Éditeur
De Santo Paola, Mongiat Farina Caterina
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