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Ronsard's Contentious Sisters The Paragone between Poetry and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard / by Roberto E. Campo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campo, Roberto E., 1954-
- Series:
- North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures Series
- North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures Series ; v.257
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ronsard, Pierre de, 1524-1585--Knowledge--Arts.
- Paragone (Aesthetics).
- Art and literature--France.
- Art and literature.
- Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, 1998.
- Summary:
- This book examines Ronsard's participation in the heated paragone debate between poets and painters: the Renaissance contest for superiority in the ranking of the arts that emerged in counterpoint to the parity-centered, pseudo-Horatian principle of ut pictura poesis ("as is painting, so is poetry").
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Dedication
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- NOTE ON EDITIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE: THE PARAGONE IN FOCUS
- I. A Perennially Ambivalent Contest for Presence
- II. Contention within and among the Theories
- A. Plato and Aristotle
- B. The Scholastics and Neoplatonists
- C. The Case of Leonardo da Vinci
- CHAPTER TWO: THE POEMS ON NARRATIVE PAINTING
- I. Painting in the 'Drift'
- A. A son Luc
- B. Des peintures contenues de dans un tableau
- II. Poetry against the 'Flow'
- A. Of Guitars, Baskets, Cloaks and Lyres
- B. A Temple for All Time
- CHAPTER THREE: THE POEMS ON PAINTED PORTRAITURE
- I. The Elegie à Janet: A Dilemma of Ambivalence:
- II. A Presence of Ekplexis
- A. From Shadows to Metamorphoses
- B. Of the Shades of Portraits that Enthrall
- CONCLUSION: THE AMBIVALENCE RECONSIDERED
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF RONSARD POEMS CITED
- GENERAL INDEX
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-264) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4696-4515-7
- OCLC:
- 1080550567
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