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The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

The Disperata, from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

Hardcover

Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Book 17

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

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ISBN10: 1580442641
ISBN13: 9781580442640
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: Aug 18 2017
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.

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