Author: Nicolas James PerellaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Heroic Virtue and Love in the Pastor Fido
Author: Nicolas James PerellaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Guarini's 'Il pastor fido' and the Madrigal
Author: Seth J. ColuzziPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315463032
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Battista Guarini’s pastoral tragicomedy Il pastor fido (1589) began its life as a play, but soon was transformed through numerous musical settings by prominent composers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the many lives of this work, this book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber, from speech to song, and from a single speaking character to an ensemble of singers, shedding new light on early modern literary and musical culture. From the play’s beginnings in manuscripts, private readings, and aborted stage productions in the 1580s and 1590s, through the gradual decline of Pastor fido madrigals in the 1640s, this book examines how this widely read yet controversial text became the center of a lasting and prolific music tradition. Using a new integrative system of musical-textual analysis based on sixteenth-century theory, Seth Coluzzi demonstrates how composers responded not only to the sentiments, imagery, and form of the play’s speeches, but also to subtler details of Guarini’s verse. Viewing the musical history of Guarini’s work as an integral part of the play’s roles in the domains of theater, literature, and criticism, this book brings a new perspective to the late Italian madrigal, the play, and early modern patronage and readership across a diverse geographical and temporal frame.
Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy
Author: Federico SchneiderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317083385
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy represents the first full-length study to confront seriously the well-rehearsed analogy of the pastoral poet as healer. Usually associated with the edifying function of the Renaissance pastoral, this analogy, if engaged more profoundly, raises a number of questions that remain unanswered to this day. How does the pastoral heal? How exactly do the inner workings of the text cater to the healing? What socio-cultural conventions make the healing possible? What are the major problems that pastoral poetry as mimesis must overcome to make its healing morally legitimate? In the wake of Derrida's seminal work on the Platonic pharmakon, which has in turn led recent criticism to formulate a much more concrete understanding of the theater/drug analogy, the stringent approach to the therapeutic function of the Renaissance pastoral offered in this work provides a valuable critical tool to unpack the complexity contained within a little-understood cliché.
Il Pastor Fido
Author: Battista GuariniThe Spenser Encyclopedia
Author: Albert Charles HamiltonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802079237
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
A reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works and influence. Over 700 entries by 422 contributors, an index and extensive bibliography.
The Pastoral Pause in the Midst of the Hunt
Author: Vicki Joy DeMaraCassell Dictionary Italian Literature
Author: Peter BondanellaPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0304704644
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Andrew Marvell
Author: A. D. CousinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317181204
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This monograph studies how, across the Folio of 1681, Marvell's poems engage not merely with different kinds of loss and aspiration, but with experiences of both that were, in mid-seventeenth-century England, disturbingly new and unfamiliar. It particularly examines Marvell's preoccupation with the search for home, and with redefining the homeland, in times of civil upheaval. In doing so it traces his progression from being a poet who plays sophisticatedly with received myth to being one who is a national mythmaker in rivalry with his poetic contemporaries such as Waller and Davenant. Although focusing primarily on poems in the Folio of 1681, this book considers those poems in relation to others from the Marvell canon, including the Latin poems and the satires from the reign of Charles II. It closely considers them as well in relation to verse by poets from the classical past and the European, especially English, present.
The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies
Author: Dictionary of Italian Literature
Author: Peter BondanellaPublisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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