The icy fire : five studies in European Petrarchism
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The icy fire : five studies in European Petrarchism
Cambridge University Press, 1969
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Includes bibliographical references (p.188-190) and index
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Description
In this short introductory book, Professor Forster examines Petrarchism as a European phenomenon transcending national boundaries. He begins with a general survey of themes and conventions, providing, with quotation, something like a repertory of the devices. He then shows in an important historical study how various vernacular literatures were seeking for a renewal of poetic diction at the moment when Petrarchism was available to meet the need. The third study examines specific forms and shows how realism in love-relationships could be accommodated within the tradition. A fourth shows how the literary conventions, applied to England's Virgin queen, could serve political and national ends; and the last shows the devices still being used in Goethe's Faust. This is a learned and engaging book, ranging freely among literatures: Latin, Italian, French, Dutch, English, and German, with translations provided. It gives an introduction to one of the most important and longest-lasting traditions in comparative literary studies.
Table of Contents
- Introductory note
- Notes on illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Petrarchan manner: an introduction
- 2. European petrarchism as training in poetic diction
- 3. Conventional safety values: alba, pastourelle and epithalamium
- 4. The political petrarchism of the Virgin Queen
- 5. Lynkeus' masque in Hoethe's Faust II
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Tailpiece
- Index.
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