{"product_id":"loves-wounds-9781501705229","title":"Loves Wounds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove''s Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e 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 vulnerabilitya 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.\u003ci\u003eLove's Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the development of the c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNazarian's study has the great merit of proposing a thought-provoking new way of understanding the rhetoric of Petrarchan lyric, and of assaying the heuristic value of a bold and clearly articulated thesis.\u003c\/p\u003e * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer incisive close readings unveil the unexpected potential of conventional tropes and present early modern Petrarchan sonnets as a site for collaboration, contestation, and ultimately critique.\u003c\/p\u003e * Renaissance and reformation \/ renaissance et reforme *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn examining love's wounds, Nazarian maintains this focus on the poet's psychology, but as he articulates it on his own terms and for political ends. She builds upon it to demonstrate how this lowliness serves to raise the poet's voice in the political sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e * MODERN PHILOLOGY *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her efforts to reconsider and recast the lyric in the early modern period from the singu- lar to the collective—from the \u003ci\u003eje\u003c\/i\u003e to the\u003ci\u003e nous\u003c\/i\u003e—Cynthia Nazarian's\u003ci\u003e Love's Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing short of a revolutionary examination of the Renaissance lyric from Petrarch to Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e * L'ESPIRIT CREATEUR *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn engaging account of post-Petrarchan literary history, rigorous in its individual analyses.... Stands as an important and stimulating study of how much political meaning might flow from love's wounds.\u003c\/p\u003e * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNazarian's book would be noteworthy for its study of the politics of early modern (particularly French) lyric alone, but it also offers theoretical reflections on the ethics of poetic violence and broad interventions into our understanding of intergeneric collaboration and the poet's career in early modernity. This is an exciting and stimulating book that rewards its readers richly.\u003c\/p\u003e * H-France Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction1. Strategies of Abjection: \u003ci\u003eParrhesia\u003c\/i\u003e and the Cruel Beloved from Petrarch's \u003ci\u003eCanzoniere\u003c\/i\u003e to Sceve’s \u003ci\u003eDelie\u003c\/i\u003e2. Violence and the Politics of Imitation in Du Bellay’s \u003ci\u003eLa Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eL’Olive\u003c\/i\u003e3. Martyrdom, Anatomy, and the Ethics of Metaphor in d’Aubigne’s \u003ci\u003eL’Hecatombe a Diane\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLes Tragiques\u003c\/i\u003e4. Petrarchan Tyranny and Lyric Resistance in Spenser’s \u003ci\u003eAmoretti \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003eConclusion: The Paradoxes of Pain: Shakespeare beyond Petrarchism\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409321763159,"sku":"9781501705229","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/loves-wounds-9781501705229","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}