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Author:
Kennedy, William J. (William John), 1942- author.
Title:
Petrarchism at work : contextual economies in the age of Shakespeare / William J. Kennedy.
Publisher:
Cornell University Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
x, 333 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--Economic aspects.
Petrarca, Francesco,--1304-1374--Influence.
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-325) and index.
Contents:
The marketplace of Mercury -- Petrarch and Italian poetry -- Petrarch as homo economicus -- Making Petrarch matter: the parts and labor of textual revision -- Jeweler's daughter sings for doge: Gaspara Stampa's entrepreneurial poetics -- Incommensurate gifts: Michelangelo and the economy of revision -- Pierre de Ronsard and Pl©♭iade aesthetics -- Polished to perfection: Ronsard's investment in Les Amours -- Ronsard Furieux: interest in Ariosto -- Passions and privations: writing sonnets like a pro in Les Amours de Marie -- The smirched muse: commercializing Sonnets pour H©♭l©·ne -- Shakespeare's sonnets and the economy of Petrarchan aesthetics -- To possess is not to own: the cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man -- Polish and skill: Will's interest and self-interest in sonnets 61-99 -- Owning up to furor: the poets' war and its aftermath in sonnets 100-126 -- Shakespeare as professional: the economy of revision in sonnets 1-60 -- Mercurial economies.
Summary:
"This book will focus on competing claims about quicksilver eloquence, vatic inspiration, and hermeneutic skills among Renaissance poets, and upon choices that they made for their writing, their literary careers, and the professionalization of their craft. Its ground is the intersection of aesthetics and economics in European Renaissance poetry, and its principal actors are Francesco Petrarch, Gaspara Stampa, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pierre de Ronsard and William Shakespeare"--Introduction.
ISBN:
1501700014
9781501700019
OCLC:
(OCoLC)922220374
LCCN:
2015035334
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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