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Zusammenfassung Using new and cutting-edge perspectives, this book explores literary criticism and the reception of Aristotle's Poetics in early modern Italy. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters examine the current state of the field and set out new directions for future study. The reception of classical texts of literary criticism, such as Horace’s Ars Poetica , Longinus's On the Sublime , and most importantly, Aristotle’s Poetics was a crucial part of the intellectual culture of Renaissance Italy. Revisiting the translations, commentaries, lectures, and polemic treatises produced, the contributors apply new interdisciplinary methods from book history, translation studies, history of the emotions and classical reception to them. Placing several early modern Italian poetic texts in dialogue with twentieth-century literary theory for the first time, The Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond models contemporary practice and maps out avenues for future study. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction, Bryan Brazeau (University of Warwick, UK) Part I. Mapping the Field and Retracing Boundaries 2. A Scholar-Collector in Mid-Century Chicago: The Books of Bernard Weinberg, Eufemia Baldassarre (University of Chicago, USA) , Paul F. Gehl (Newberry Library, USA) and Lia Markey (Newberry Library, USA) 3. Sound Aristotelians and How They Read, Micha Lazarus (Cambridge University, UK) 4. Inventing a Renaissance: Modernity, Allegory, and the History of Literary Theory, Vladimir Brljak (University of Cambridge, UK) Part II. Case Studies: Critical Quarrels and Readings 5. From Manuscript Studies to the Social and Political History of Aesthetics: Shedding Light on the Readings of Aristotle’s Poetics developed within the Alterati of Florence (1569-ca. 1630), Déborah Blocker (U.C. Berkeley, USA) 6. Quarrelling over Dante: Revisiting Weinberg on The First Phase of the Quarrel and on Sperone Speroni’s Second Discorso sopra Dante, Simon Gilson (University of Oxford, UK) 7. Poetics in Practice: How Orazio Lombardelli Read his Homer, Sarah Van Der Laan (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) Part III. New Theoretical Frontiers 8. Epic (In)hospitality: The Case of Tasso, Jane Tylus (Yale University, USA) 9. Soul to Squeeze: Emotional History and Early Modern Readings of Aristotle’s Poetics, Bryan Brazeau (University of Warwick, UK) 10. Critical Imitatio : Renaissance Literary Theory and its Postmodern Avatars, Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University, USA) Appendix: Early Modern Books in the Library of Bernard Weinberg, Paul F. Gehl (Newberry Library, USA), Lia Markey (Newberry Library, USA), and Eufemia Baldassare (University of Chicago, USA) Index...
