Love's Wounds

N. Nazarian Cynthia

Description

Love's 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.Love's Wounds tracks the development of the countersovereign voice from Francesco Petrarca to Maurice Sceve, Joachim du Bellay, Theodore-Agrippa d'Aubigne, 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.

Sujets

• Idioma inglés
• Modern history
• English
• Anglais
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 10 janvier 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501708268
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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LOVE’S WOUNDS

VI OL E NCE AND T HE POL I T I CS OF POE T RY I N E ARLY MODE RN E UROPE

Cy nt h i a N . N a z a r i a n

CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS Ithaca and London

Cover photograph: Giuseppe Giorgetti,San Sebastiano. Photograph copyright Mark Ynys-Mon 2016, photograph@ druidic.org.

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First published 2016 by Cornell University Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Nazarian, Cynthia Nyree, 1980– author. Title: Love’s wounds : violence and the politics of poetry in  early modern Europe / Cynthia N. Nazarian. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016. |  Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016040241 (print) |  LCCN 2016040745 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501705229  (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501708251 (epub/mobi) |  ISBN 9781501708268 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: European poetry—Renaissance,  1450–1600—History and criticism. | Love poetry,  European—History and criticism. | Petrarca, Francesco,  1304–1374—Influence. | Violence in literature. |  Literature and state—Europe—History—16th century. Classification: LCC PN1181 .N39 2016 (print) |  LCC PN1181 (ebook) | DDC 809.1/93543094—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016040241

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For my parents, Seza and André Nazarian, andforStefan

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ListofIllustrationsix Acknowledgmentsxi ListofAbbreviationsxiii

Introduction:Vulnerability and the Countersovereign Voice 1. Strategies of Abjection: Parrh ē siaand the Cruel Beloved from Petrarch’sCanzoniere to Scève’sDélie 2. Violence and the Politics of Imitation in Du Bellay’s La Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyseandL’Olive 3. Martyrdom, Anatomy, and the Ethics of Metaphor in d’Aubigné’sL’Hécatombe à DianeandLes Tragiques 4. Petrarchan Tyranny and Lyric Resistance in Spenser’sAmoretti andThe Faerie Queene Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Pain: Shakespeare beyond Petrarchism

Notes251 Bibliography279 Index291

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1. “Actéon.” Maurice Scève,deDélie, object plus haulte vertu(Lyon: S. Sabon, 1544), 79. Reproduced with permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. 2. Standing female anatomical figure. Charles Estienne,La dissection des parties du corps humain diuisee en trois liures(Paris: Simon de Colines, 1546), 300. Reproduced with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 3.“TauolaI.delLib.III.”JuanValverdedeAmusco, Anatomia del corpo humano(Venice: Nicolò Beuilacqua, 1559), 94. Reproduced with permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

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