Conversations
Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 2020
272 pages
978-1-5261-5268-8 (ISBN)
Description
For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries - often more so. This volume seeks to recapture that sense of intimacy and immediacy, as scholars from both sides of the modern disciplinary divide come together to eavesdrop on the conversations conducted through allusion and intertextual play in works from Petrarch to Milton and beyond. The essays include discussions of Ariosto, Spenser, Du Bellay, Marlowe, the anonymous drama Caesars Revenge, Shakespeare and Marvell, and look forward to the grand retrospect of Shelley's Adonais. Together, they help us to understand how poets across the ages have thought about their relation to their predecessors, and about their own contributions to what Shelley would call 'that great poem, which all poets...have built up since the beginning of the world'. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-5268-8 (9781526152688)
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Content
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Flying with the immortals: reaching for the sky in classical and Renaissance poetics
- In and Out of Latin: diptych and virtual diptych in Marvell, Milton, Du Bellay and others
- Reviving Lucan: Marlowe, Tamburlaine, and Lucans First Booke
- Citizenship and suicide: Shakespeare's Roman plays, republicanism and identity in Samson Agonistes
- Adonis and literary immortality in pastoral elegy
- Bibliography
- Index
