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Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francis Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the late fourteenth century. A framework in which poems are suspended according to some organizing or unifying principle, the lyric sequence emerges from

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*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii*A NOTE ON TEXTS AND PROCEDURES, pg. xi*Introduction. POST-PETRARCHISM: TOWARD A POETICS OF LYRIC AND THE LYRIC SEQUENCE, pg. 3*Chapter 1. FOUNDING FICTION: THE TEMPORALITY OF PETRARCH'S CANZONIERE, pg. 22*Chapter 2. CONSTRUCTING CHARACTER: SIDNEY'S ASTROPHIL AND STELLA AS NOMINATIVE FICTION, pg. 63*Chapter 3. TWO RITUAL SEQUENCES: TAYLOR'S PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS AND WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS, pg. 109*Chapter 4. NOMINATIVE TO ARTIFACTUAL: INTERVAL AND INNOVATION IN TWO SEQUENCES BY YEATS, pg. 153*Chapter 5. MEASURING SPACE, BECOMING SPACE: THE SPATIALITY OF NERUDA'S ALTURAS DE MACCHU PICCHU AND ADAN'S LA MANO DESASIDA, pg. 195*NOTES, pg. 255*INDEX, pg. 287

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780691600987, 978-0691600987
      ISBN10: 0691600988
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      Book Synopsis
      Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francis Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the late fourteenth century. A framework in which poems are suspended according to some organizing or unifying principle, the lyric sequence emerges from

      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii*A NOTE ON TEXTS AND PROCEDURES, pg. xi*Introduction. POST-PETRARCHISM: TOWARD A POETICS OF LYRIC AND THE LYRIC SEQUENCE, pg. 3*Chapter 1. FOUNDING FICTION: THE TEMPORALITY OF PETRARCH'S CANZONIERE, pg. 22*Chapter 2. CONSTRUCTING CHARACTER: SIDNEY'S ASTROPHIL AND STELLA AS NOMINATIVE FICTION, pg. 63*Chapter 3. TWO RITUAL SEQUENCES: TAYLOR'S PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS AND WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS, pg. 109*Chapter 4. NOMINATIVE TO ARTIFACTUAL: INTERVAL AND INNOVATION IN TWO SEQUENCES BY YEATS, pg. 153*Chapter 5. MEASURING SPACE, BECOMING SPACE: THE SPATIALITY OF NERUDA'S ALTURAS DE MACCHU PICCHU AND ADAN'S LA MANO DESASIDA, pg. 195*NOTES, pg. 255*INDEX, pg. 287

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