03493nam 2200685 450 991046251830332120200520144314.01-4426-9602-810.3138/9781442696020(CKB)2670000000187584(OCoLC)785803011(CaPaEBR)ebrary10541229(SSID)ssj0000623064(PQKBManifestationID)11385822(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623064(PQKBWorkID)10655656(PQKB)11571238(CEL)438813(CaBNVSL)slc00228454(MiAaPQ)EBC3279066(MiAaPQ)EBC4672864(DE-B1597)479414(OCoLC)1032693074(OCoLC)979743507(DE-B1597)9781442696020(Au-PeEL)EBL4672864(CaPaEBR)ebr11258515(EXLCZ)99267000000018758420160923h20112011 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtccrKissing the wild woman art, beauty, and the reformation of the Italian prose romance in Giulia Bigolina's Urania /Christopher NissenToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2011.©20111 online resource (342 p.)Toronto Italian studies Kissing the wild woman1-4426-4340-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Reformation of the Prose Romance -- 2. Writing a Portrait -- 3. Ekphrasis and the Paragone -- 4. The Sight of the Beautiful -- 5. Kissing the Wild Woman -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexGiulia Bigolina's (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wild Woman, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina's greatest surviving work, in which she fashioned a new type of narrative that combined elements of the romance and the novella and included a polemical treatise on the moral implications of portraiture and the role of women in the arts. Demonstrating that Bigolina challenged cultural authority by rejecting the prevailing views of both painting and literature, Nissen discusses Bigolina's suggestion that painting constituted an ineffectual, even immoral mode of self-promotion for women in relation to the views of the contemporary writer Pietro Aretino and the painter Titian. Kissing the Wild Woman's analysis of this little-known work adds a new dimension to the study of Renaissance aesthetics in relation to art history, Renaissance thought, women's studies, and Italian literature.Painting in literatureAesthetics in literatureBeauty, Personal, in literatureItalyCivilization1559-1789Electronic books.Painting in literature.Aesthetics in literature.Beauty, Personal, in literature.853/.4Nissen Christopher972812MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462518303321Kissing the wild woman2212907UNINA