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Love's Wounds : Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe /

"Investigates widespread metaphors of dismemberment, constraint, cannibalism, wounding, and tyranny in early modern French, English, and Italian literature. Through its comparative, inter-genre studies of Petrarch and five major Petrarchan poets of the sixteenth century, Love's Wounds show...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nazarian, Cynthia Nyree, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Investigates widespread metaphors of dismemberment, constraint, cannibalism, wounding, and tyranny in early modern French, English, and Italian literature. Through its comparative, inter-genre studies of Petrarch and five major Petrarchan poets of the sixteenth century, Love's Wounds shows how love poetry was actively transformed into a powerful tool for defining the nation and for reflecting on and shaping state authority"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9781501708268