Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (Paperback)

In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its athree crownsa: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intertextual/multicultural, the structural/formal, and the social.The essays in the first section treat the ideology of love and desire from the early lyric tradition to the Inferno and its antecedents in philosophy and theology. In the second, Barolini focuses on Dante as heir to both the Christian visionary and the classical pagan traditions (with emphasis on Vergil and Ovid). The essays in the third part analyze the narrative character of Danteas Vita nuova, Petrarchas lyric sequence, and Boccaccioas Decameron. Barolini also looks at the cultural implications of the editorial history of Danteas rime and at what sparso versus organico spells in the Italian imaginary. In the section on gender, she argues that the didactic texts intended for womenas use and instruction, as explored by Guittone, Dante, and Boccaccioabut not by Petrarchawere more progressive than the courtly style for which the Italian tradition is celebrated.Moving from the lyric origins of the Divine Comedy in aDante and the Lyric Pasta to Petrarchas regressive stance on gender in aNotes toward a Gendered History of Italian Literatureaaand encompassing, among others, Giacomo da Lentini, Guido Cavalcanti, and Guittone daArezzoathese sixteen essays by one of our leading critics frame the literary culture of thirteenth-and fourteenth-century Italy in fresh, illuminating ways that will prove useful and instructive to students and scholars alike.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	November 2006
Authors:	Teodolinda Barolini
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	496
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-2704-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Promotions
LSN:	0-8232-2704-9
Barcode:	9780823227044

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