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Compromising the Classics - Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover, New)
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Compromising the Classics - Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover, New)
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Compromising the Classics examines the evolution of narrative
poetics in three of the canonical poems of the Italian Renaissance,
the romance-epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso.
Combining cultural criticism with literary analysis, this volume
focuses on how these poets renovated the popular genre of romance
into a new kind of narrative through their imitation of classical
epic, as well as through their imitation of pastoral, satire,
history, and to a lesser extent, comedy and tragedy. Looney
illustrates how the three great Renaissance poets from Ferrara are
products of a cultural milieu which literary historians have
typically ignored. Through these poets, who sought to incorporate
details of classical literature into their idiom, Looney analyzes
the impact of Renaissance humanism on popular culture.
Specifically, the book tracks the way in which Ariosto's allusions
to certain classical works shaped the patterning of his Orlando
Furioso (1532), so that from one perspective it resembles a
classical narrative, while from another, a medieval romance.
Ariosto's intertextual allusions to classical sources often
promoted a reevaluation of those models in terms of his own
vernacular tradition and affected how his contemporary readers
responded to classical literature. The same can be said of Tasso
and Boiardo. Indeed, one of the most important contributions of
Compromising the Classics is the introduction and illumination of
Boiardo's work, about which critics have said virtually nothing. In
contextualizing this unwarranted neglect, Looney notes both
Ariosto's stunning literary success and Tasso's theoretical
positions as primary contributors to the eclipse of Boiardo.
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