Renaissance rewritings / edited by Helmut Pfeiffer, Irene Fantappie, Tobias Roth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pfeiffer, Helmut, editor.

Fantappiè, Irene, editor.

Roth, Tobias, editor.

Series:

Transformationen der Antike ; Band 50.

Transformationen der Antike, 1864-5208 ; Band 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

‘Rewriting’ is one of the most crucial but at the same time one of the most elusive concepts of literary scholarship. In order to contribute to a further reassessment of such a notion, this volume investigates a wide range of medieval and early modern literary transformations, especially focusing on texts (and contexts) of Italian and French Renaissance literature. The first section of the book, "Rewriting", gathers essays which examine medieval and early modern rewritings while also pointing out the theoretical implications raised by such texts. The second part, "Rewritings in Early Modern Literature", collects contributions which account for different practices of rewriting in the Italian and French Renaissance, for instance by analysing dynamics of repetition and duplication, verbatim reproduction and free reworking, textual production and authorial self-fashioning, alterity and identity, replication and multiplication. The volume strives at shedding light on the complexity of the relationship between early modern and ancient literature, perfectly summed up in the motto written by Pietro Aretino in a letter to his friend the painter Giulio Romano in 1542: "Essere modernamente antichi e anticamente moderni".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Without Hierarchy: Diffraction, Performance, and Re-writing as Kippbild in Dante’s Vita nova

Anakyklosis. Transformation of Transformations

Rewriting, Re-figuring. Pietro Aretino’s Transformations of Classical Literature

Liber mentalis: the Art of Memory and Rewriting

“nulla son io; […] due siam fatti d’uno” (Geta e Birria) – Subtracting by Duplicating, or The Transformations of Amphitryon in the Early Modern Period

From Plague to Scabies. Rewriting Lucretius in Angelo Poliziano’s Sylva in scabiem

Hippocrates for Princes: Ippolito de’ Medici’s Retratti d’aphorismi

The Inner-Poetic History of Latin Love Poetry in Tito Vespasiano Strozzi’s Eroticon

Shipwrecked Souls. Menippean Satire and Renaissance Textuality

Ariosto’s Rewriting of Ancient and Contemporary Models in Italian Verse Satire

From Venice to Basel. Curione’s Rewritings

Pietro Aretino, St. John the Baptist and the Rewriting of the Psalms

Rewriting the Bible in Pietro Aretino’s Genesi (1538)

Aretino’s Rewritings of the Bible

Index of names

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 16, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110523256

3110523256

9783110525021

311052502X

OCLC:

1004881423