Love's Wounds: Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe by Cyn

Description: Love's Wounds by Cynthia N. Nazarian Loves Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Loves Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourteenth-century Italy, this book shows how Petrarch established a pattern of inequality between suffering poet and exalted Beloved rooted in political parrhesia. Sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French and English poets reshaped his model into an idiom of extravagant brutality coded to their own historical circumstances. Cynthia N. Nazarian argues that these poets exaggerated the posture of the downtrodden lover, adapting the rhetoric of powerless desire to forge a new "countersovereignty" from within the heart of vulnerability-a potentially revolutionary position through which to challenge cultural, religious, and political authority. Creating a secular equivalent to the martyr, early modern sonneteers crafted a voice that was both critical and unstoppable because it suffered. Loves Wounds tracks the development of the countersovereign voice from Francesco Petrarca to Maurice Sceve, Joachim du Bellay, Theodore-Agrippa dAubigne, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare.Through interdisciplinary and transnational analyses, Nazarian reads early modern sonnets as sites of contestation and collaboration and rewrites the relationship between early modern literary forms. Author Biography Cynthia N. Nazarian is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University. Table of Contents Introduction 1. Strategies of Abjection: Parrhesia and the Cruel Beloved from Petrarchs Canzoniere to Sceves Delie 2. Violence and the Politics of Imitation in Du Bellays La Deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse and LOlive 3. Martyrdom, Anatomy, and the Ethics of Metaphor in dAubignes LHecatombe a Diane and Les Tragiques 4. Petrarchan Tyranny and Lyric Resistance in Spensers Amoretti and The Faerie Queene Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Pain: Shakespeare beyond Petrarchism Review "Through close and sustained analysis of strategies of abjection in verse from Petrarch to Spenser and DAubigne, Loves Wounds examines how early modern poets craft expressions of suffering to challenge inherited orders of sovereignty. Reading lyric sensuously and forcefully, Cynthia N. Nazarian offers a fresh and vigorous study of canonical works. Her work is stunning, and this book will be an enduring point of reference in the years to come."-Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, author of The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France "In Loves Wounds, Cynthia N. Nazarian makes a splendid contribution to Renaissance studies by questioning conventional notions of powerless desire, by uncovering unsuspected relationships between psychological abjection and political subjection, and by using lyric poetry to position ethical and political critique in dialogue with each other and with various forms of literary epic, romance, drama, and manifesto."-William J. Kennedy, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University, author of Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare "The fascinating Loves Wounds contains phrases that are as sharp as poniards. To relate images of political struggle against kings and empires to the rebellion of a Petrarchan lover against the sovereignty of an immovable lady is ingenious."-Anne Prescott, Senior Scholar and Emerita Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of English, Barnard College, author of French Poets and the English Renaissance: Studies in Fame and Transformation "In this impressive book, Cynthia N. Nazarian takes seriously the hyperbolic stance of the vulnerable lover, from Petrarch to Shakespeare, and demonstrates the surprising political uses and strengths of such weakness. Loves Wounds deals provocatively with a range of canonical literary works and areas such as rhetoric and ethics, the practice of literary imitation, and the representation of early modern martyrdom and violence."-Ullrich Langer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne Long Description Loves Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourteenth-century Italy, this book shows how Petrarch established a pattern of inequality between suffering poet and exalted Beloved rooted in political parrhesia. Sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French and English poets reshaped his model into an idiom of extravagant brutality coded to their own historical circumstances. Cynthia N. Nazarian argues that these poets exaggerated the posture of the downtrodden lover, adapting the rhetoric of powerless desire to forge a new "countersovereignty" from within the heart of vulnerability--a potentially revolutionary position through which to challenge cultural, religious, and political authority. Creating a secular equivalent to the martyr, early modern sonneteers crafted a voice that was both critical and unstoppable because it suffered. Loves Wounds tracks the development of the countersovereign voice from Francesco Petrarca to Maurice Sc Review Quote "Through close and sustained analysis of strategies of abjection in verse from Petrarch to Spenser and DAubign, Loves Wounds examines how early modern poets craft expressions of suffering to challenge inherited orders of sovereignty. Reading lyric sensuously and forcefully, Cynthia N. Nazarian offers a fresh and vigorous study of canonical works. Her work is stunning, and this book will be an enduring point of reference in the years to come."-Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, author of The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France Details ISBN1501705229 Author Cynthia N. Nazarian Pages 320 Publisher Cornell University Press Year 2017 ISBN-10 1501705229 ISBN-13 9781501705229 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2017-01-10 Imprint Cornell University Press Subtitle Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe Place of Publication Ithaca Country of Publication United States DEWEY 809.1935431 Illustrations 3 Halftones, black and white Short Title Loves Wounds Language English UK Release Date 2017-01-10 AU Release Date 2017-01-10 NZ Release Date 2017-01-10 US Release Date 2017-01-10 Audience Age 18 Alternative 9781501708251 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159796705;

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