Overview
Investigates widespread metaphors of dismemberment, constraint, cannibalism, wounding, and tyranny in early modern French, English, and Italian literature. Through its comparative, inter-genre studies of Petrarch and five major Petrarchan poets of the sixteenth century, Love's Wounds shows how love poetry was actively transformed into a powerful tool for defining the nation and for reflecting on and shaping state authority--
- | Author: Cynthia Nyree Nazarian
- | Publisher: Cornell University Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 10, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1501705229
- | ISBN-13: 9781501705229
