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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Petrarchism"”.
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Problematising Petrarchism: Shakespeare’s Varying Responses to an Elizabethan Cult
… rich and multifaceted responses to the cult of Petrarchism in Elizabethan England in selected sonnets, narrative poems and plays. I start by providing a sense of the historical tradition of Petrarchism both in general and in its various manifestations in the culture of Elizabethan England in the …
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Political Petrarchism: The Rhetorical Fashioning of Community in Early Modern Italy
Engaging with a variety of literary and historical sources, in both prose and verse, including letters, chronicles, treaties and the neo-Latin epic, this dissertation examines the centrality of the classically-informed, philosophical idea of friendship (amicitia) in the community-building discourse …
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Perceval's sister and Juliet Capulet as disruptive guides in spiritual quests
… Petrarchan spiritual love. Shakespeare critiques Petrarchism in Romeo and Juliet by showing Juliet’s death as a result of Romeo’s poetic habits and showing Juliet as a disruptive poet who is aware of the danger.</p>
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Memory in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and Poetics: Rhetorical Traditions, Philosophical Debates, Political Contexts
… and Juan de Jáuregui (1583-1641), I argue that Petrarchism, the period’s dominant poetic framework, became a cultural meta-discourse of memory in Spain. It allowed poets to absorb non-literary discourses (such as philosophy, medicine, law, theology, and politics) to stage memory in action, while …
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Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro
… the presence of visual culture, the influence of Petrarchism, and the aesthetics of the Baroque—among other phenomena—impact the relationship between the two arts.</p> <p>The ‘Orphans of Orpheus’ from my title are the poets who express a yearning for the music that was once believed to be …
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Women Writers of In Morte Poetry: Negotiating Grief in Renaissance Italy
This thesis focuses on in morte poetry by Renaissance women writers, examining the cases of Vittoria Colonna, Veronica Gambara, Laura Battiferri, Chiara Matraini, and Francesca Turina. It explores how these women negotiated space and legitimacy for their poetic voices in relation to the previous …
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The ambition of melancholy: the aesthetics of heroism in the lyric poetry of Juan Boscán and Fernando de Herrera
Spanish appropriation of Petrarchan lyric in the sixteenth century was motivated by the desire to raise the cultural status of Spain to match that of its imperial presence on the world’s stage. As this thesis will argue, ‘melancholic heroism’, an attitude that was central to the construction of the …