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The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

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This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of...
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This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.
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Price: £17.50
Pages: 336
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Imprint: Medieval Institute Publications
Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Publication Date: 18 August 2017
ISBN: 9781580442640
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literature: history and criticism
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Introduction The Italian Disperata: Origins and Definitions The Female-Voiced Disperata The Disperata in the Quattrocento The Disperata in the Cinquecento The Disperata in France Disperata and Desespoir Conclusion