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In this short introductory book, Professor Forster examines Petrarchism as a European phenomenon transcending national boundaries. He begins with a general survey of themes and conventions, providing, with quotation, something like a repertory of the devices. He then shows in an important historical study how various vernacular literatures were seeking for a renewal of poetic diction at the moment when Petrarchism was available to meet the need. The third study examines specific forms and shows how realism in love-relationships could be accommodated within the tradition. A fourth shows how the literary conventions, applied to England's Virgin queen, could serve political and national ends; and the last shows the devices still being used in Goethe's Faust. This is a learned and engaging book, ranging freely among literatures: Latin, Italian, French, Dutch, English, and German, with translations provided. It gives an introduction to one of the most important and longest-lasting traditions in comparative literary studies.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Icy Fire
• Subtitle: Five Studies in European Petrarchism
• Author: Leonard Forster
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228
• EAN: 9780521295215
• ISBN: 0521295211
• ID: 02026974
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 254 g
• Dimensions: 131 × 198 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. February 1979

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