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The poetry of kissing in early modern Europe : from the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers /
The ""kissing-poem"" genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
D.S. Brewer,
2017.
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| Colección: | Studies in Renaissance literature ;
Volume 34. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Notes on Editorial Matters; List of Abbreviations; 1 The Rise and Fall of a Genre; Generic History; The Career of the Kiss-Poem; Tradition, Kind and Mode; 2 A Thousand Kisses; Rome to Renaissance; Latin into English; 3 Erotic Transformation; Euphemism and Titillation; Tongues, Teeth and Role-Play; A Mixed Classical Heritage; 4 Sexual and Generic Tensions; The 'Catullan Law'; The Hard and Soft in Kiss-Poetry; Women Poets and Masculine Convention; A Dual Posterity?; 5 The Soul in the Kiss: A Theme and its Variations; Soul-Kisses before Secundus.
- Poetic PlatonismJanus Secundus; The Later Soul-Kiss Poem; Questions of Form; 6 The Kiss-Poem in the British Isles; Basium into Sonnet: Sir Philip Sidney and Giles Fletcher the Elder; Vernacular Strains: Drummond of Hawthornden; Scottish Neo-Latin: Buchanan, Ayton and Leech; 7 Sophistication of the English Kiss; From Genre to Mode: Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis; Imitation and Parody: Campion to Cowley; Cavalier Secundanism: Sir Thomas Stanley; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index.