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Writers reading writers : intertextual studies in medieval and early modern literature in honor of Robert Hollander / edited by Janet Levarie Smarr.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- This volume is a collection of intertextual studies on medieval and early modern literature in honor of Robert Hollander by some of his former students. Robert Hollander taught how writers are always also readers, responding to texts that have provoked their thought. The contributors to this volume have all been working within its overarching theme: writers reading and responding to other writers. As Hollander's work has focused especially on Dante and Boccaccio, many of the essays treat one of these writers, either as reading or as read by others. Some essays trace intertextual influences in Langland, Shakespeare, or post-Enlightenment writers faced with the loss of Dante's meaningful cosmos. All the essays demonstrate the importance of such readings to the later writer's conception and formulation of his own work.
- Contents:
- Part I Reading the Ancients
- Distilling Ovid: Dante's Exile and Some Metamorphic Nomenclature in Hell / Simone Marchesi 21
- Philomela, Procne, and the Song of the Penitent in Dante's Purgatorio / Jessica Levenstein 40
- Boccaccio's Manto: Pagan Vision and Poetic Revisions / Suzanne Hagedorn 58
- Nolite iudicare: Dante and the Dilemma of Judgment Lauren / Scancarelli Seem 73
- Chaucer as Vates?: Reading Ovid through Dante in the House of Fame, Book 3 / Jamie C. Fumo 89
- O'erpressed Spirits in Shakespeare's Pericles / William Robins 109
- Part II Reading the Moderns
- Ernst Robert Curtius on Dante's Medieval Latin Authors / Earl Jeffrey Richards 133
- Did Langland Read the Lignum Vitae? / Macklin Smith 149
- Classical and Vernacular Narrative Models for Art Biography in Vasari's Lives / James H. S. McGregor 183
- Griselda on Stage: Maggi's Griselda di Saluzzo Janet / Levarie Smarr 201
- Cock and Bull Cosmologies: Reading the Post-Enlightenment Universe / Nicholas Rennie 225.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780874139761
- 0874139767
- OCLC:
- 74688591
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