Post-Petrarchism : origins and innovations of the western lyric sequence / Roland Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Roland, 1957- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry.

European poetry--History and criticism.

European poetry.

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francis Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the late fourteenth century. A framework in which poems are suspended according to some organizing or unifying principle, the lyric sequence emerges from European humanist culture as a poetic discourse that represents personal experience and operates as a kind of fiction. Here Roland Greene proposes that since Petrarch the lyric sequence has survived in European and American literatures--from Shakespeare's Sonnets to The Waste Land to Trilce--as a complex in which formal, generic, and cultural designs intersect, and as an embodiment of lyric discourse at its most extensive, inclusive, and ambitious. Enabled by a theoretical introduction to the genre at large, the book treats the founding and elaboration of the vernacular sequence in six major texts by Petrarch, Philip Sidney, Edward Taylor, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, Pablo Neruda, and Martin Adan. Throughout Greene shows how Petrarchism has evolved as lyric discourse through its exposure to such events as the Reformation and Puritanism, the settlement of the New World, and the various modernisms of Europe and the Americas.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A NOTE ON TEXTS AND PROCEDURES

Introduction. POST-PETRARCHISM: TOWARD A POETICS OF LYRIC AND THE LYRIC SEQUENCE

Chapter 1. FOUNDING FICTION: THE TEMPORALITY OF PETRARCH'S CANZONIERE

Chapter 2. CONSTRUCTING CHARACTER: SIDNEY'S ASTROPHIL AND STELLA AS NOMINATIVE FICTION

Chapter 3. TWO RITUAL SEQUENCES: TAYLOR'S PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS AND WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS

Chapter 4. NOMINATIVE TO ARTIFACTUAL: INTERVAL AND INNOVATION IN TWO SEQUENCES BY YEATS

Chapter 5. MEASURING SPACE, BECOMING SPACE: THE SPATIALITY OF NERUDA'S ALTURAS DE MACCHU PICCHU AND ADAN'S LA MANO DESASIDA

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691630779

0691630771

9780691600987

0691600988

9781400861774

1400861772

OCLC:

889253188