Hieroglyph of time : the Petrarchan sestina / / Marianne Shapiro

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778399603321
• Autore: Shapiro Marianne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1980; ©1980
• ISBN: 0-8166-5516-2; 1-4356-0627-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.1/42
• Soggetti: Sestinas - History and criticism; Sestinas, Italian - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; PREFATORY NOTE; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2. ARNAUT AND ARNALDIANS; Chapter 3. CONCEPTS OF TIME AND THE PETRARCHAN SESTINA; Chapter 4. DANTE; FIVE SESTINAS BY PETRARCH; Chapter 5. DIALECTICS OF RENAISSANCE IMITATION: THE CASE OF PONTUS DE TYARD; Chapter 6. THE PASTORAL SESTINA; Chapter 7. THE SHIP ALLEGORY; Chapter 8. EPILOGUE; REFERENCES; INDEXES
• Sommario/riassunto: Hieroglyph of Time was first published in 1981. ""A dance of the intellect among words,"" Ezra Pound called the sestina. A poetic form invented by a Provençal troubadour, Arnaut Daniel, the sestina was elaborated and refined by Petrarch and is used today exactly as it was created. In Hieroglyph of Time, the first critical study of the sestina, Marianne Shapiro analyzes poems by Daniel, Petrarch, Pontus de Tyard, Sannazaro, Sidney, Spenser, Auden, Pound, Merwin, and Ashbery and discusses sestinas composed in German and Portuguese.