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William J. Kennedy - Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare - 9781501700019 - V9781501700019
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Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare

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Description for Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.

The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These "Petrarchan" poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poets—as craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch’s legacy.

Petrarchism at Work contributes to recent scholarship that ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501700019
SKU
V9781501700019
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99-1

About William J. Kennedy
William J. Kennedy is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of several books, including The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England and Authorizing Petrarch.

Reviews for Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare
Kennedy's command of the source materials and close readings of poetic variants are exceptional. With Petrarchism at Work he has written another authoritative and original study of Petrarch's legacy that will greatly impact theeld.
Renaissance Quarterly
Invites debate, reflection, and further contributions on a widening variety of textual corpora. This fine book has much to recommend it, especially ... Read more

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