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The Ugly Woman : Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque.
Taking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression, The Ugly Woman is a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Toronto Italian studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Intro
- 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 de' 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
- 'Stanze in Praise of the Ugly Woman'
- 4 New Perspectives in Baroque Poetry: Unconventional Beauty
- From 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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