Dialogues with Convention: Readings in Renaissance PoetryHarvester Wheatsheaf, 1989 - 204 pages |
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... Petrarchan code , the line does ( whether we like it or not ) assert self - expression , self - exploration , personal feeling , subjectivity . But since that seems unlikely , or unacceptable , we consequently ( and subsequent to our ...
... Petrarchan code , the line does ( whether we like it or not ) assert self - expression , self - exploration , personal feeling , subjectivity . But since that seems unlikely , or unacceptable , we consequently ( and subsequent to our ...
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... Petrarchan tradi- tion , accounting for it as an exaggerated and decadent version of some Petrarchan mannerisms ; others find the true origins of his stylistic devices in Ramistic logic ; others in Euphuism ; some cite the literature of ...
... Petrarchan tradi- tion , accounting for it as an exaggerated and decadent version of some Petrarchan mannerisms ; others find the true origins of his stylistic devices in Ramistic logic ; others in Euphuism ; some cite the literature of ...
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... Petrarchan idealism , there are too profound and inevitable differences . Not the least among them is the fact that Ovid was a poet of Augustan Rome , whose atti- tudes towards love and marriage and erotic adventuring can be frankly ...
... Petrarchan idealism , there are too profound and inevitable differences . Not the least among them is the fact that Ovid was a poet of Augustan Rome , whose atti- tudes towards love and marriage and erotic adventuring can be frankly ...
Contents
CONVENTIONS OF | 23 |
CONVENTIONS OF IMITATION | 59 |
CONVENTIONS OF DEVOTION I | 81 |
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