The controversy generated in Italy by the writings of Ludovico
Ariosto and Torquato Tasso during the sixteenth century was the
first historically important debate on what constitutes modern
literature. Applying current critical theories and tools, the
essays in "Renaissance Transactions" reexamine these two
provocative poet-thinkers, the debate they inspired, and the
reasons why that debate remains relevant today.
Resituating these writers' works in the context of the Renaissance
while also offering appraisals of their uncanny "postmodernity,"
the contributors to this volume focus primarily on Ariosto's
"Orlando furioso" and Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata." Essays center
on questions of national and religious identity, performative
representation, and the theatricality of literature. They also
address subjects regarding genre and gender, social and legal
anthropology, and reactionary versus revolutionary writing.
Finally, they advance the historically significant debate about
what constitutes modern literature by revisiting with new
perspective questions first asked centuries ago: Did Ariosto invent
a truly national, and uniquely Italian, literary genre--the
chivalric romance? Or did Tasso alone, by equaling the epic
standards of Homer and Virgil, make it possible for a literature
written in Italian to attain the status of its classical Greek and
Latin antecedents?
Arguing that Ariosto and Tasso are still central to the debate on
what constitutes modern narrative, this collection will be
invaluable to scholars of Italian literature, literary history,
critical theory, and the Renaissance.
"Contributors." Jo Ann Cavallo, Valeria Finucci, Katherine
Hoffman, Daniel Javitch, Constance Jordan, Ronald L. Martinez, Eric
Nicholson, Walter Stephens, Naomi Yavneh, Sergio Zatti
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