Speaking of Love: The Love Dialogue in Italian and French Renaissance Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34252-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts

Re-evaluating the dialogue’s place in the literary landscape of the Italian and French Renaissance, Speaking of Love presents the love dialogue at the intersection of a revival of the form and the period’s philosophies of love and desire. Between 1540 and 1580, authors such as Speroni, Tullia d’Aragona, the Venetian poligrafi, Tyard, Le Caron, Pasquier, Taillemont, Marguerite de Navarre, and Louise Labé, feature interlocutors not only deliberating on love but imitating the experience of love in their dynamics of speaking. These love dialogues allow early modern ideologies and discourses of love to be imitated by the reader and rival lyric poetry in conveying amorous experience, validating dialogue as an authentic literary form rather than a tool of philosophical thinking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leushuis, Reinier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Reinier Leushuis, Ph.D. (2000), Princeton University, is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Florida State University. He has published widely on Renaissance literature, including Le Mariage et l’'amitié courtoise' dans le dialogue et le récit bref de la Renaissance (2003).