Love's wounds : violence and the politics of poetry in early modern Europe /
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 lo...
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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Table of 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.