Literary studies: general Books
University of Toronto Press Writing Beloveds
Book SynopsisCovering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in Writing Beloveds, Feng recovers the initial political purposes in Latin prose and traces how poetry set the terms for gender, agency, and power in early modern Italy. By revealing the literary motifs in men’s and women’s writing about gender she maps how certain figures in Petrarch’s writing transmitted gendered ideas of power and reflected a growing anxiety about women as public figures. This work includes nuanced analyses of poetry, linguistic treatises, debates on imitation, representations of gender and epistolary correspondence in Latin and Italian. Writing Beloveds is a landmark study that highlights the new social reality of women writeTrade Review"In this deeply researched, carefully analyzed, and engagingly written book, Aileen A. Feng explores Petrach’s influence upon Latin humanist prose in Italy’s early Renaissance and upon vernacular poetry and prose in its later Renaissance. " -- William J. Kennedy * Renaissance Quarterly *"Deeply researched, tightly argued, and elegantly written, Feng’s book makes an intriguing and compelling argument for revising the conventional chronology of Renaissance Petrarchism. This version is bound to exert influence over the field of Renaissance studies." -- Danila Sokolov, University of Iceland * Early Modern Women *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: Intellectual Masculinity and the Female Intellect in Humanist Petrarchism Chapter 1 - Women of Stone: Gender and Politics in the Petrarchan World Chapter 2 - In Laura's Shadow: Gendered Dialogues and Humanist Petrarchis in the Fifteenth Century Chapter 3 - Laura Speaks: Sisterhood, Amicitia, and Marital Love in the Female Latin Petrarchist Writings of the Fifteenth Century PART II: Pietro Bembo and the Legacy of Humanist Petrarchism Chapter 4 - Theorizing Gender: Nation Building and Female Mythology in the Ciceronian Quarrels Chapter 5 - Politicizing Gender: Bembo's Private and Public Petrarchism Afterword Bibliography
£45.90
University of Toronto Press Medieval Romance
Book SynopsisMedieval Romance is the first study to focus on the deep philosophical underpinnings of the genre's fictional worlds.Trade Review"James and Peggy Knapp’s latest joint scholarly endeavor, Medieval Romance: The Aesthetics of Possibility, is a significant and original contribution to the study of medieval romance, for it brings forth and examines the philosophical underpinnings of a number of well-known and extensively studied romances." -- Kimberly K. Bell, Sam Houston State University * Modern Philology, vol 117, no 1 *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Speculative Fiction of Marie de France 2. Perception and Possible Worlds in Sir Orfeo 3. Capturing Beauty: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde 4. Melusine's Aventure among the Humans 5. Romance by Other Means: The Canterbury Tales 6. The Immense Subtlety of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight References Index
£48.45
University of Toronto Press Italian Literature since 1900 in English
Book SynopsisProviding the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Structure of the Bibliographical Entries Bibliography: Sources of Information Consulted Abbreviations: Sources of Bibliographical Information Translations from Italian, 1929–2016 1929–1939 1940–1949 1950–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2016 Author Index Title Index Translator Index Editor Index Artist and Illustrator Index Publisher Index Periodical Index Series Index
£142.80
