{"product_id":"renaissance-transactions-ariosto-and-tasso","title":"Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRenaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eValeria Finucci\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780822322955\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDuke University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1999\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe controversy generated in Italy by the writings of Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso during the sixteenth century was the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature. Applying current critical theories and tools, the essays in \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Transactions\u003c\/i\u003e reexamine these two provocative poet-thinkers, the debate they inspired, and the reasons why that debate remains relevant today.\u003cbr\u003eResituating these writers' works in the context of the Renaissance while also offering appraisals of their uncanny \"postmodernity,\" the contributors to this volume focus primarily on Ariosto's \u003ci\u003eOrlando furioso\u003c\/i\u003e and Tasso's \u003ci\u003eGerusalemme liberata\u003c\/i\u003e. Essays center on questions of national and religious identity, performative representation, and the theatricality of literature. They also address subjects regarding genre and gender, social and legal anthropology, and reactionary versus revolutionary writing. Finally, they advance the historically significant debate about what constitutes modern literature by revisiting with new perspective questions first asked centuries ago: Did Ariosto invent a truly national, and uniquely Italian, literary genre-the chivalric romance? Or did Tasso alone, by equaling the epic standards of Homer and Virgil, make it possible for a literature written in Italian to attain the status of its classical Greek and Latin antecedents?\u003cbr\u003eArguing that Ariosto and Tasso are still central to the debate on what constitutes modern narrative, this collection will be invaluable to scholars of Italian literature, literary history, critical theory, and the Renaissance.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Jo Ann Cavallo, Valeria Finucci, Katherine Hoffman, Daniel Javitch, Constance Jordan, Ronald L. Martinez, Eric Nicholson, Walter Stephens, Naomi Yavneh, Sergio Zatti\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso | Valeria Finucci | Paperback | 9780822322955 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks B 1777374","offer_id":49765829181592,"sku":"1777374","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71ejo8d2JqL.jpg?v=1787970861","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/renaissance-transactions-ariosto-and-tasso","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}