Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
Ariosto Today
- Contemporary Perspectives
Engelsk Hardback
Ariosto Today
- Contemporary Perspectives
Engelsk Hardback

678 kr
Udsolgt
Sikker betaling
6 - 8 hverdage

Om denne bog

Ludovico Ariosto''s Orlando furioso is one of the masterpieces of the Renaissance, a work which, many argue, signalled the apogee of Renaissance fancy on the precipice of irony and decline. This collection of essays brings together twelve noted Italian and American scholars to provide a complete picture of Ariosto and all his works, covering topics such as historical criticism relating to Ariosto''s place and time; philological investigations into the varying literary styles of the author, especially outside of the Furioso; Ariosto''s extrinsic relationships with other literary traditions; and formal and thematic excavations of the immanent aesthetics of the Furioso.

Each essayist acknowledges the fact that Ariosto''s creations are charged with allusions and allegiances variously inviting recognition or demanding the status of record. This reading of his works reveals that Ariosto was not a writer who believed, as it was previously thought, that literature is something escapist or fantastic in nature, but one who, in writing and re-writing his works, tried to re-interpret literary tradition while incorporating the new literary instruments that were available to him at the time: Ariosto''s literary production is an integration of tradition and invention. This new reading of his work will be essential to any Italianist''s library.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780802029676
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0802029671
Udg. Dato:
30 apr 2003
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
163mm
Forlag:
University of Toronto Press
Oplagsdato:
30 apr 2003
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge