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The Quest for Epic : From Ariosto to Tasso /

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Zatti, Sergio, 1950-
Autres auteurs: Hill, Sally, Looney, Dennis
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Italiano
Publié: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.