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Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language (Hardcover): Francesca Southerden Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language (Hardcover)
Francesca Southerden
R2,635 Discovery Miles 26 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Possibilities of Lyric - Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (Hardcover): Manuele Gragnolati, Francesca Southerden Possibilities of Lyric - Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (Hardcover)
Manuele Gragnolati, Francesca Southerden; Contributions by Antonella Anedda Angioy
R745 R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Save R126 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Medieval Temporalities - The Experience of Time in Medieval Europe (Hardcover): Almut Suerbaum, Annie Sutherland Medieval Temporalities - The Experience of Time in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
Almut Suerbaum, Annie Sutherland; Contributions by Annie Sutherland, Almut Suerbaum, Katharine Sykes, …
R2,192 Discovery Miles 21 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Essays investigating the question of time, and how it was perceived, both in philosophical/religious terms, and in reality. How was time experienced in the Middle Ages? What attitudes informed people's awareness of its passing - especially when tensions between eternity and human time shaped perceptions in profound and often unexpected ways? Is it a human universal or culturally specific - or both? The essays here offer a range of perspectives on and approaches to personal, artistic, literary, ecclesiastical and visionary responses to time during this period. They cover a wide and diverse variety of material, from historical prose to lyrical verse, and from liturgical and visionary writing to textiles and images, both real and imagined, across the literary and devotional cultures of England, Italy, Germany and Russia. From anxieties about misspent time to moments of pure joy in the here and now, from concerns about worldly affairs to experiences of being freed from the trappings of time, the volume demonstrates how medieval cultures and societies engaged with and reflected on their own temporalities.

The Oxford Handbook of Dante (Hardcover): Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, Francesca Southerden The Oxford Handbook of Dante (Hardcover)
Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, Francesca Southerden
R6,887 R5,218 Discovery Miles 52 180 Save R1,669 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.

Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni (Hardcover, New): Francesca Southerden Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni (Hardcover, New)
Francesca Southerden
R3,742 Discovery Miles 37 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni is the first book-length study in English on Vittorio Sereni (1913-83), one of the major figures of Italian twentieth-century poetry. It argues that a key innovation of Sereni's poetry is constituted in the way in which, from Frontiera [Frontier] (1941) to Stella variabile [Variable Star] (1981), he reworks the boundaries of poetic space to construct a lyric 'I' radically repositioned in the textual universe with respect to its predecessors: an 'I' that is decentred, in limine, and struggles to subordinate the world to its point of view. Through an interdisciplinary framework that bridges psychoanalytic, linguistic, and poetic theory, two main dimensions of Sereni's work are revisited and reassessed. The first is the role of liminality, which is presented as a condition of writing and as the mark of a desiring subject whose most desired object is the complete poem or total identity that elude him. The second is Sereni's relationship to the Italian poetic tradition, including Dante, Petrarch, Leopardi, and Montale, who mediate his contact with a textual beyond that slips further and further from view. The study maps, through close-reading, the poet's evolving use of deictic reference (spatio-temporal coordinates, demonstratives, personal pronouns) and the progressive transformation of the poem into a place of frustrated desire that occludes fulfilment. It argues that Sereni's particular brand of experimentalism develops from this point and that he represents a unique moment in the history of twentieth-century Italian poetry in the way in which he adapts pre-existing models of lyric discourse to new modes of expression.

Possibilities of Lyric - Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (Paperback): Manuele Gragnolati, Francesca Southerden Possibilities of Lyric - Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (Paperback)
Manuele Gragnolati, Francesca Southerden; Contributions by Antonella Anedda Angioy
R355 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R54 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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