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The Quest for Epic : From Ariosto to Tasso.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (324 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442682160
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Quest for EpicDDC classification:
  • 851/.409353
LOC classification:
  • PQ4103 .Z37 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Furioso between Epos and Romance -- 2 The Quest: Considerations on the Form of the Furioso -- 3 Turpin's Role: Poetry and Truth in the Furioso -- 4 Tasso versus Ariosto? -- 5 The Shattering of the Chivalric World: Ariosto's Cinque canti -- 6 Christian Uniformity, Pagan Multiplicity -- 7 Errancy, Infirmity, and Conquest: Figures of Conflict -- 8 Torquato Tasso: Epic in the Age of Dissimulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epicdocuments the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Furioso between Epos and Romance -- 2 The Quest: Considerations on the Form of the Furioso -- 3 Turpin's Role: Poetry and Truth in the Furioso -- 4 Tasso versus Ariosto? -- 5 The Shattering of the Chivalric World: Ariosto's Cinque canti -- 6 Christian Uniformity, Pagan Multiplicity -- 7 Errancy, Infirmity, and Conquest: Figures of Conflict -- 8 Torquato Tasso: Epic in the Age of Dissimulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epicdocuments the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century.

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