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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797157103321

Autore

Roush Sherry

Titolo

Speaking spirits : ventriloquizing the dead in Renaissance Italy / / Sherry Roush

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-2302-0

1-4426-2301-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

850.9/375

Soggetti

Italian literature - To 1400 - History and criticism

Italian literature - 16th century - History and criticism

Ghosts in literature

Dead in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Eidolopoeia : Idol Making -- 1. Rewriting the Auctor : Revising according to the Text's Letter or Spirit? -- 2. Divining Dante: Scandals of His Corpus and Corpse -- 3. Genius Loci : Exile, Citizenship, and the Place of Burial -- 4. Habeas Corpus, Habeas Spiritum : Some Not-So-Final Thoughts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Speaking Spirits, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian eidolopoeia.