Hieroglyph of time : the Petrarchan sestina / Marianne Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Marianne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sestinas--History and criticism.

Sestinas.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374--Criticism and interpretation.

Petrarca, Francesco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hieroglyph of Time was first published in 1981. ""A dance of the intellect among words,"" Ezra Pound called the sestina. A poetic form invented by a Provençal troubadour, Arnaut Daniel, the sestina was elaborated and refined by Petrarch and is used today exactly as it was created. In Hieroglyph of Time, the first critical study of the sestina, Marianne Shapiro analyzes poems by Daniel, Petrarch, Pontus de Tyard, Sannazaro, Sidney, Spenser, Auden, Pound, Merwin, and Ashbery and discusses sestinas composed in German and Portuguese.

Contents:

CONTENTS; PREFATORY NOTE; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2. ARNAUT AND ARNALDIANS; Chapter 3. CONCEPTS OF TIME AND THE PETRARCHAN SESTINA; Chapter 4. DANTE; FIVE SESTINAS BY PETRARCH; Chapter 5. DIALECTICS OF RENAISSANCE IMITATION: THE CASE OF PONTUS DE TYARD; Chapter 6. THE PASTORAL SESTINA; Chapter 7. THE SHIP ALLEGORY; Chapter 8. EPILOGUE; REFERENCES; INDEXES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and indexes.

ISBN:

0-8166-5516-2

1-4356-0627-2

OCLC:

182732607