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Petrarchism at work : contextual economies in the age of Shakespeare / William J. Kennedy.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PN731 .K46 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, William J. (William John), 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--Economic aspects.
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374--Influence.
- Petrarca, Francesco.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William.
- European literature--Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- x, 333 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "This book will focus on competing claims about quicksilver eloquence, vatic inspiration, and hermeneutic skills among Renaissance poets, and upon choices that they made for their writing, their literary careers, and the professionalization of their craft. Its ground is the intersection of aesthetics and economics in European Renaissance poetry, and its principal actors are Francesco Petrarch, Gaspara Stampa, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pierre de Ronsard and William Shakespeare"--Introduction.
- Contents:
- The marketplace of Mercury
- Petrarch and Italian poetry
- Petrarch as homo economicus
- Making Petrarch matter: the parts and labor of textual revision
- Jeweler's daughter sings for doge: Gaspara Stampa's entrepreneurial poetics
- Incommensurate gifts: Michelangelo and the economy of revision
- Pierre de Ronsard and Pléiade aesthetics
- Polished to perfection: Ronsard's investment in Les Amours
- Ronsard Furieux: interest in Ariosto
- Passions and privations: writing sonnets like a pro in Les Amours de Marie
- The smirched muse: commercializing Sonnets pour Hélène
- Shakespeare's sonnets and the economy of Petrarchan aesthetics
- To possess is not to own: the cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man
- Polish and skill: Will's interest and self-interest in sonnets 61-99
- Owning up to furor: the poets' war and its aftermath in sonnets 100-126
- Shakespeare as professional: the economy of revision in sonnets 1-60
- Mercurial economies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-325) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781501700019
- 1501700014
- OCLC:
- 922220374
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