Tasso's Dialogues
Author | : Torquato Tasso |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1983-12-09 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780520049857 |
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Author | : Torquato Tasso |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1983-12-09 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780520049857 |
Author | : C. P. Brand |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1965-01-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521043115 |
This 1965 volume was a comprehensive study in English of the life and work of Torquato Tasso. Dr Brand here reassesses his writings to illustrate the essential qualities of his poetry and estimates his contribution to English literature on which, particularly on Spenser and Milton, his influence was profound.
Author | : Jon R. Snyder |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804714594 |
The 'rediscovery' in sixteenth-century Italy of Aristotle's Poetics marks a crucial moment in the development of Western thought about literature, for the flood of new and controversial works that accompanied this event laid the foundations of modern literary criticism and theory. This is a study of the main literary theories of the late Italian Renaissance that seek to define a poetics of dialogue. The author contends that dialogue - among the most popular of all prose forms in Italy to develop a new theory of literature, because it seems to subvert the conventional Renaissance understanding of what is 'literary' and what is not. With its close ties to dialectic and to Platonic philosophy on the one hand, and its equally vital links to imaginative fiction on the other, dialogue in the Renaissance stands at the crossroads of the discourses of cognition and fiction. Writing the Scene of Speaking examines the different solutions offered by sixteenth-century Italian theorists to the problem posed by the hybrid textuality of dialogue, and sets them in the context of a culture in a dramatic state of transition.
Author | : Marta Spranzi |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027218897 |
This book reconstructs the tradition of dialectic from Aristotle's "Topics," its founding text, up to its "renaissance" in 16th century Italy, and focuses on the role of dialectic in the production of knowledge. Aristotle defines dialectic as a structured exchange of questions and answers and thus links it to dialogue and disputation, while Cicero develops a mildly skeptical version of dialectic, identifies it with reasoning "in utramque partem" and connects it closely to rhetoric. These two interpretations constitute the backbone of the living tradition of dialectic and are variously developed in the Renaissance against the Medieval background. The book scrutinizes three separate contexts in which these developments occur: Rudolph Agricola's attempt to develop a new dialectic in close connection with rhetoric, Agostino Nifo's thoroughly Aristotelian approach and its use of the newly translated commentaries of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes, and Carlo Sigonio's literary theory of the dialogue form, which is centered around Aristotle's "Topics." Today, Aristotelian dialectic enjoys a new life within argumentation theory: the final chapter of the book briefly revisits these contemporary developments and draws some general epistemological conclusions linking the tradition of dialectic to a fallibilist view of knowledge.
Author | : Reinier Leushuis |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004343717 |
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.