The Quest for Epic : From Ariosto to Tasso /

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"Translated here for the first time into English, Sergio Zatti's The Quest for Epic is a selection of studies on the two major poets of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, by one of the most important literary critics writing in Italy today. An original and challe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zatti, Sergio, 1950-
Other Authors: Hill, Sally, Looney, Dennis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tasso, Torquato.
Ariosto, Ludovico.
Tasso, Torquato, > 1544-1595.
Ariosto, Lodovico, > 1474-1533.
Tasso, Torquato, > 1544-1595 > Critique et interpretation.
Ariosto, Lodovico, > 1474-1533 > Critique et interpretation.
Tasso, Torquato, > 1544-1595. > Gerusalemme liberata.
Ariosto, Lodovico, > 1474-1533. > Orlando furioso.
Tasso, Torquato, > 1544-1595 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ariosto, Lodovico, > 1474-1533 > Criticism and interpretation.
Orlando furioso (Ariosto, Lodovico)
Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso, Torquato)
Italian poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
POETRY > Continental European.
Poesie italienne > 16e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Italian poetry > 16th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Furioso between Epos and romance
  • 2. The quest : considerations on the form of the Furioso
  • 3. Turpin's role : poetry and truth in the Furioso
  • 4. Tasso versus Ariosto?
  • 5. The shattering of the chivalric world : Ariosto's Cinque canti
  • 6. Christian uniformity, pagan multiplicity
  • 7. Errancy, infirmity, and conquest : figures of conflict
  • 8. Torquato Tasso : epic in the age of dissimulation.

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