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Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne
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This paper proposed a new reading of several French poets (Charles d'Orleans, Ronsard, and Du Bellay), and a re-evaluation of Montaigne's understanding of the most striking poetry and its relation to his own prose.Abstract:
Moving from a definition of the lyric to the innovations introduced by Petrarch's poetic language, this study goes on to propose a new reading of several French poets (Charles d'Orleans, Ronsard, and Du Bellay), and a re-evaluation of Montaigne's understanding of the most striking poetry and its relation to his own prose. Instead of relying on conventional notions of Renaissance subjectivity, it locates recurring features of this poetic language that express a turn to the singular and that herald lyric poetry's modern emphasis on the utterly particular. By combining close textual analysis with more modern ethical concerns this study establishes clear distinctions between what poets do and what rhetoric and poetics say they do. It shows how the tradition of rhetorical commentary is insufficient in accounting for this startling effectiveness of lyric poetry, manifest in Petrarch's Rime Sparse and the collections of the best poets writing after him.read more
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English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime: Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson
Abstract: Patrick Cheney's new book places the sublime at the heart of poems and plays in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Specifically, Cheney argues for the importance of an 'early modern sublime' to the advent of modern authorship in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson. Chapters feature a model of creative excellence and social liberty that helps explain the greatness of the English Renaissance. Cheney's argument revises the received wisdom, which locates the sublime in the eighteenth-century philosophical 'subject'. The book demonstrates that canonical works like The Faerie Queene and King Lear reinvent sublimity as a new standard of authorship. This standard emerges not only in rational, patriotic paradigms of classical and Christian goodness but also in the eternizing greatness of the author's work: free, heightened, ecstatic. Playing a centralizing role in the advent of modern authorship, the early modern sublime becomes a catalyst in the formation of an English canon.
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Cupid, Choice, and Rewriting Petrarch in the Early Sonnets of Astrophil and Stella
TL;DR: Sidney as mentioned in this paper enacts his ambition to rival Petrarch's Rime in Astrophil and Stella by linking the mythology and mythography of Cupid with the issue of choice.
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Turning Toward the Beloved (Virgil, Petrarch, Scève)
TL;DR: Langer as discussed by the authors analyzed this episode of the myth in Virgil's Georgics as not only conveying the "frenzy" of love, but also as advancing an argument for equity (and pardon), using the kinesic intelligence that allows us to absorb and understand the physical turn toward the beloved.
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The anxiety of influence : a theory of poetry
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The Singularity of Literature
TL;DR: The Singularity of Literature as mentioned in this paper considers the implications of regarding the literary work as an innovative cultural event, both in its time and for later generations, and provides a rich new vocabulary for discussions of literature, rethinking such terms as invention, singularity, otherness, alterity, performance and form.