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The Renaissance epic and the oral past / / Anthony Welch



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Autore: Welch Anthony <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Renaissance epic and the oral past / / Anthony Welch Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 260 p.)
Disciplina: 809.1/32
Soggetto topico: Epic poetry, European - History and criticism
Epic literature, European - Classical influences
European poetry - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism
European literature - 17th century - History and criticism
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Tasso's silent lyre -- The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser -- Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale -- Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler -- Milton's lament -- Epic opera -- Coda: The singer withdraws.
Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.According to Anthony Welch, the theory and practice of epic poetry in this period-including little-known attempts by many epic poets to have their work orally recited or set to music-must be understood in the context of Renaissance musical humanism. Welch's approach leads to a fresh perspective on a literary culture that stood on the brink of a new relationship with antiquity and on the history of music in the early modern era.
Titolo autorizzato: The Renaissance epic and the oral past  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-300-18899-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910812470503321
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Serie: Yale studies in English.