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050		4	_aPQ4055.W6 B488 2005
082	0		_a851.0093522
100	1		_aBettella, Patrizia.
245	1	4	_aThe Ugly Woman : _bTransgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aToronto : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c2005.
264		4	_c©2005.
300			_a1 online resource (268 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aToronto Italian Studies
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Female Ugliness in the Middle Ages: The Old Hag -- Misogyny and Female Old Age in Medieval Culture -- Rhetoric and the Ugly -- Comic-Realistic Poetry: Rustico Filippi and Guido Guinizzelli -- Misogyny and Antistilnovismo: Cecco Angiolieri and Nicolò de' Rossi -- Stilnovistic Parody and Antifeminist Bias in Guido Cavalcanta and Niccola Muscia -- 2 Transgression in the Trecento and Quattrocento: Guardian, Witch, Prostitute -- The Old Guardian in Comic Poetry and Franco Sacchetti -- Descriptive Vituperation: Guarding and Slandering in Minstrel Poetry -- The Witch in Burchiello and Giovan Matteo di Meglio -- The Old Prostitute: Angelo Poliziano -- 3 The Portrait of the Ugly Woman in the Renaissance: The Peasant, the Anti-Laura -- Paradoxical Praise -- Parody in Rustic Poetry -- Praised Ugliness/Otherness: The Peasant in Strascino, Berni, and Firenzuola -- Transgression on the Margins: The Disgusting Other -- Anti-Petrarchism: The Anti-Laura in Berni, Doni, and Aretino -- 'Stanze in Praise of the Ugly Woman' -- 4 New Perspectives in Baroque Poetry: Unconventional Beauty -- From Ugliness to Unconventional Beauty -- The Dark Lady -- In Praise of Dark Hair -- In Praise of Dark Skin: The Exotic Other -- Female Old Age Revisited -- Lice and Fleas: Beauty and Vermin between Witticism and Parody -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 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.
520			_aTaking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression,The Ugly Womanis a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in literature.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aItalian poetry-History and criticism.
650		0	_aWomen in literature.
650		0	_aUgliness in literature.
650		0	_aMisogyny in literature.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aBettella, Patrizia _tThe Ugly Woman _dToronto : University of Toronto Press,c2005 _z9780802039262
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aToronto Italian Studies
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4672174 _zClick to View
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