Petrarch S Humanism And The Care Of The Self
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Petrarch S Humanism And The Care Of The Self
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Author : Gur Zak
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-17
Petrarch S Humanism And The Care Of The Self written by Gur Zak and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-17 with History categories.
In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.
Writing From Exile
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Author : Gur Zak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Writing From Exile written by Gur Zak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
The question of the nature and scope of Italian humanism, and particularly of humanist philosophy, has been an ongoing source of debate among historians. In this dissertation I explore the nature of humanist philosophy by complementing the traditional study of the "history of ideas" with that of the "history of practices." Concentrating on Petrarch's voluminous corpus of writing, I argue that Petrarch develops in his works a new ethical program, a new philosophy of self, at the centre of which is the assertion that "self" is above all a state of mind from which we are exiled and which we need to cultivate through constant practice, and particularly through the literary practice of writing (which is always intertwined with that of reading). In order to examine Petrarch's philosophy, therefore, this thesis focuses especially on his uses of writing as a spiritual exercise in his works, and the ways in which these uses both absorb and transform ancient and medieval traditions of writing. In Petrarch's vernacular poetry, I argue, writing serves mainly as a personal ritual and a meditative exercise that allows the poet to overcome his experience of fragmentation and exile by reviving and intensifying his desire. In the Latin works, in contrast, writing mostly serves as a vehicle for the cultivation of virtue and the eradication of desire, which is presented as the very source of the experience of exile. Nonetheless, the uses of writing in the Latin works, modeled mostly upon the example of Seneca, are in themselves persistently undermined by the "Ovidian" realization that writing is always tainted by desire, and is hence in itself part of the problem no less than the solution. This realization, in turn, also leads to the "Augustinian" backlash in Petrarch's works against secular writing in general. As a result, while this thesis argues that Petrarch's humanism is defined above all by his emphasis on care, his attempt to establish humanism as a form of secular spirituality, it also inevitably brings to the fore the tensions and contradictions that plagued his project from its onset.
Reading Chaucer In Time
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Author : Kara Gaston
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-27
Reading Chaucer In Time written by Kara Gaston and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-27 with Literary Collections categories.
The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. Reading for form can mean reading for formation. Understanding processes through which a text was created can help us in characterizing its form. But what is involved in bringing a diachronic process to bear upon a synchronic work? When does literary formation begin and end? When does form happen? These questions emerge with urgency in the interactions between English poet Geoffrey Chaucer and Italian trecento authors Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Francis Petrarch. In fourteenth-century Italy, new ways were emerging of configuring the relation between author and reader. Previously, medieval reading was often oriented around the significance of the text to the individual reader. In Italy, however, reading was beginning to be understood as a way of getting back to a work's initial formation. This book tracks how concepts of reading developed within Italian texts, including Dante's Vita nova, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida, and Petrarch's Seniles, impress themselves upon Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales. It argues that Chaucer's poetry reveals the implications of reading for formation: above all, that it both depends upon and effaces the historical perspective and temporal experience of the individual reader. Problems raised within Chaucer's poetry thus inform this book's broader methodological argument: that there is no one moment at which the formation of Chaucer's poetry ends; rather its form emerges in and through process of reading within time.
Posterity
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Author : Rocco Rubini
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-01-18
Posterity written by Rocco Rubini and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Rocco Rubini studies the motives and literary forms in the making of a "tradition," not understood narrowly, as the conservative, stubborn preservation of received conventions, values, and institutions, but rather more generously and etymologically interpreted: as the deliberate effort on the part of writers to transmit a reformulated past across generations. Leveraging Italian thinkers from Petrarch to Gramsci, with stops at the most prominent humanists in between (including Giambattista Vico, Carlo Goldoni, Francesco De Sanctis, and Benedetto Croce), Rubini gives us an innovative lens through which to view an Italian intellectual tradition that is at once premodern and modern, a legacy that does not depend on a date or a single masterpiece, but instead requires the reader to parse an entire career of writings to uncover deeper, transhistorical continuities that span 600 years. Whether reading forward to the 1930s, or backward to the 14th century, Rubini elucidates the interplay of creation and reception underlying the enactment of tradition, the practice of retrieving and conserving, and the revivification of shared themes and intentions linking these thinkers across time"--
Petrarch
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Author : Christopher S. Celenza
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2022-08-22
Petrarch written by Christopher S. Celenza and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet. Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Though his writings inspired the humanist movement and subsequently the Renaissance, Petrarch remains misunderstood. He was a man of contradictions—a Roman pagan devotee and a devout Christian, a lover of friendship and sociability, yet intensely private. In this biography, Christopher S. Celenza revisits Petrarch’s life and work for the first time in decades, considering how the scholar’s reputation and identity have changed since his death in 1374. He brings to light Petrarch’s unrequited love for his poetic muse, the anti-institutional attitude he developed as he sought a path to modernity by looking backward to antiquity, and his endless focus on himself. Drawing on both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings, this is a revealing portrait of a figure of paradoxes: a man of mystique, historical importance, and endless fascination. It is the only book on Petrarch suitable for students, general readers, and scholars alike.
Rereading The Renaissance
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Author : Carol E. Quillen
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1998
Rereading The Renaissance written by Carol E. Quillen and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Rereading the Renaissance - a study of Petrarch's uses of Augustine - uses methods drawn from history and literary criticism to establish a framework for exploring Petrarch's humanism. Carol Everhart Quillen argues that the essential role of Augustine's words and authority in the expression of Petrarch's humanism is best grasped through a study of the complex textual practices exemplified in the writings of both men. She also maintains that Petrarch's appropriation of Augustine's words is only intelligible in light of his struggle to legitimate his cultural ideals in the face of compelling opposition. Finally, Quillen shows how Petrarch's uses of Augustine can simultaneously uphold his humanist ideals and challenge the legitimacy of the assumptions on which those ideals were founded.
Comparative Literature In Canada
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Author : Susan Ingram
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-11-05
Comparative Literature In Canada written by Susan Ingram and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This timely volume takes stock of the discipline of comparative literature and its theory and practice from a Canadian perspective. It engages with the most pressing critical issues at the intersection of comparative literature and other areas of inquiry in the context of scholarship, pedagogy and academic publishing: bilingualism and multilingualism, Indigeneity, multiple canons (literary and other), the relationship between print culture and other media, the development of information studies, concerted efforts in digitization, and the future of the production and dissemination of knowledge. The authors offer an analysis of the current state of Canadian comparative literature, with a dual focus on the issues of multilingualism in Canada’s sociopolitical and cultural context and Canada’s geographical location within the Americas. It also discusses ways in which contemporary technology is influencing the way that Canadian literature is taught, produced, and disseminated, and how this affects its readings.
Metamorphic Readings
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Author : Alison Sharrock
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-26
Metamorphic Readings written by Alison Sharrock and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-26 with Literary Collections categories.
Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best-known and most popular works of classical literature, exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and culture. A vast repository of mythic material as well as a sophisticated manipulation of story-telling, the poem can be appreciated on many different levels and by audiences of very different backgrounds and educational experiences. As the poem's focus on transformation and transgression connects in many ways with contemporary culture and society, modern research perspectives have developed correspondingly. Metamorphic Readings presents the state of the art in research on this canonical Roman epic. Written in an accessible style, the essays included represent a variety of approaches, exploring the effects of transformation and the transgression of borders. The contributors investigate three main themes: transformations into the Metamorphoses (how the mythic narratives evolved), transformations in the Metamorphoses (what new understandings of the dynamics of metamorphosis might be achieved), and transformations of the Metamorphoses (how the Metamorphoses were later understood and came to acquire new meanings). The many forms of transformation exhibited by Ovid's masterpiece are explored—including the transformation of the genre of mythic narrative itself.
The Renaissance In Italy
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Author : Kenneth Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2019-11-15
The Renaissance In Italy written by Kenneth Bartlett and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-15 with History categories.
The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the period—Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Pope Julius II, Isabella d'Este, and so many others—engender a kind of wonder. How could so many geniuses or exceptional characters be produced by one small territory near the extreme south of Europe at a moment when much of the rest of the continent still labored under the restrictions of the Middle Ages? How did so many of the driving principles behind Western civilization emerge during this period—and how were they defined and developed? And why is it that geniuses such as Leonardo, Raphael, Petrarch, Brunelleschi, Bramante, and Palladio all sustain their towering authority to this day? To answer these questions, Kenneth Bartlett delves into the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals—the privileged, educated, influential elites—who created a rarefied world of power, money, and sophisticated talent in which individual curiosity and skill were prized above all else. The result is a dynamic, highly readable, copiously illustrated history of the Renaissance in Italy—and of the artists that gave birth to some of the most enduring ideas and artifacts of Western civilization.
Nothingness Negativity And Nominalism In Shakespeare And Petrarch
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Author : Benjamin Boysen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-11-09
Nothingness Negativity And Nominalism In Shakespeare And Petrarch written by Benjamin Boysen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Being exposed to the Nominalist expansion in early modernity, Petrarch and Shakespeare are highly preoccupied with a Nominalist dimension of language and representation. Against this background, the study shows how these Renaissance poets advanced a special notion of subjectivity and identity as rooted in negativity, otherness, and representation. The book thus argues for a new understanding of negative modes of subjectivity in Petrarch and Shakespeare. A new and sharpened understanding emerging from an interpretation of Francesco Petrarch’s notion of exile and of love in his great poetical cycle Rerum vulgarium fragmenta as well as a meticulous examination of the concept of nothingness in William Shakespeare’s works. Petrarch and Shakespeare poetically show how identity is alien and decentred – yet also free and expanding. In other words, these poets illustrate how subjectivity is constituted by heterogeneity. Moreover, pointing to other examples of this negative subjectivity in Renaissance philosophy and poetry, the study suggests that these models for subjectivity could be extended to other early modern writers.