The ugly woman : transgressive aesthetic models in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque /

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The ugly woman is a surprisingly common figure in Italian poetry, one that has been frequently appropriated by male poetic imagination to depict moral, aesthetic, social, and racial boundaries. Mostly used between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries - from the invectives of Rustico Filippi, Fra...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bettella, Patrizia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Colección:Toronto Italian studies.
Temas:
Women in literature.
Ugliness in literature.
Misogyny in literature.
Italian poetry > History and criticism.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Laideur dans la littérature.
Poésie italienne > Histoire et critique.
Misogynie dans la littérature.
POETRY > Continental European.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Italian poetry.
Gedichten.
Italiaans.
Vrouwen.
Lelijkheid.
Laideur > Dans la littérature.
Femmes > Dans la littérature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Female Ugliness in the Middle Ages: The Old Hag""; ""Misogyny and Female Old Age in Medieval Culture""; ""Rhetoric and the Ugly""; ""Comic-Realistic Poetry: Rustico Filippi and Guido Guinizzelli""; ""Misogyny and Antistilnovismo: Cecco Angiolieri and Nicolò deâ€? Rossi""; ""Stilnovistic Parody and Antifeminist Bias in Guido Cavalcanta and Niccola Muscia""; ""2 Transgression in the Trecento and Quattrocento: Guardian, Witch, Prostitute""; ""The Old Guardian in Comic Poetry and Franco Sacchetti""
  • ""Descriptive Vituperation: Guarding and Slandering in Minstrel Poetry""""The Witch in Burchiello and Giovan Matteo di Meglio""; ""The Old Prostitute: Angelo Poliziano""; ""3 The Portrait of the Ugly Woman in the Renaissance: The Peasant, the Anti-Laura""; ""Paradoxical Praise""; ""Parody in Rustic Poetry""; ""Praised Ugliness/Otherness: The Peasant in Strascino, Berni, and Firenzuola""; ""Transgression on the Margins: The Disgusting Other""; ""Anti-Petrarchism: The Anti-Laura in Berni, Doni, and Aretino""; ""â€?Stanze in Praise of the Ugly Womanâ€?""
  • 4 New Perspectives in Baroque Poetry: Unconventional BeautyFrom Ugliness to Unconventional Beauty
  • The Dark Lady
  • In Praise of Dark Hair
  • In Praise of Dark Skin: The Exotic Other
  • Female Old Age Revisited
  • Lice and Fleas: Beauty and Vermin between Witticism and Parody
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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