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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nazarian, Cynthia Nyree, 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.