Renaissance Transactions - Ariosto and Tasso

"Most of the leading and well-known scholars of the Italian Renaissance are represented here with their sundry and complementary viewpoints. . . . The presence of so many different critical voices conveys a sense of this volume as a "summa" of current Renaissance criticism."--Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Ariosto, Tasso, and Storytelling / Valeria Finucci

I. Crossing Genres

Two Odysseys: Rinaldo's Po Journey and the Poet's Homecoming in Orlando furioso / Ronald L. Martinez

The Grafting of Virgilian Epic in Orlando furioso / Daniel Javitch

Tasso's Armida and the Victory of Romance / Jo Ann Cavallo

II. The Politics of Dissimulation

Epic in the Age of Dissimulation: Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata / Sergio Zatti

Trickster, Textor, Architect, Thief: Craft and Comedy in Gerusalemme liberata / Walter Stephens

"Un cosi valoroso cavalliero": Knightly Honor and Artistic Representation in Orlando furioso, Canto 26 / Katherine Hoffman

III. Acting Out Fantasies

The Masquerade of Masculinity: Astolfo and Jocondo in Orlando furioso, Canto 28 / Valeria Finucci

Romance as Role Model: Early Female Performances of Orlando furioso and Gerusalemme liberata / Eric Nicholson

"Dal rogo alle nozze": Tasso's Sofronia as Martyr Manque / Naomi Yavneh

Writing beyond the Querelle: Gender and History in Orlando furioso / Constance Jordan

Index

Contributors

About the author

Valeria Finucci, ed.

Summary

The controversy generated in Italy by the writings of Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso during the sixteenth century was the a historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature. This book re-examines these two poet-thinkers, the debate they inspired, and the reasons why that debate remains relevant.

Product details

• Authors: Finucci
• Assisted by: Valeria Finucci (Editor), Valeria Finucci (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.1999
• EAN: 9780822322955
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2295-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Series: Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Duke Monographs in Medieval &; Duke Monographs in Medieval &; Duke Monographs in Medieval an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europa, Lyrik, Poesie, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature - Classics / Criticism, POETRY / European / General