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"Investigates widespread metaphors of dismemberment, constraint, cannibalism, wounding, and tyranny in early modern French, English, and Italian literature. Through its comparative, inter-genre studies of Petrarch and five major Petrarchan poets of the sixteenth century, Love's Wounds shows how love poetry was actively transformed into a powerful tool for defining the nation and for reflecting on and shaping state authority"--
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Love's wounds: Violence and the politics of poetry in early modern Europe, Cynthia Nyree Nazarian
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- 2016
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- Title
- Love's wounds: Violence and the politics of poetry in early modern Europe
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Cynthia Nyree Nazarian
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1501705229
- ISBN13
- 9781501705229
- Series
- Description
- "Investigates widespread metaphors of dismemberment, constraint, cannibalism, wounding, and tyranny in early modern French, English, and Italian literature. Through its comparative, inter-genre studies of Petrarch and five major Petrarchan poets of the sixteenth century, Love's Wounds shows how love poetry was actively transformed into a powerful tool for defining the nation and for reflecting on and shaping state authority"--