Pich, F (2019) On the Threshold of Poems: a Paratextual Approach to the Narrative/Lyric Opposition in Italian Renaissance Poetry. In: Venturi, F, (ed.) Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400-1700. Intersections, 62 . Brill , pp. 99-134. ISBN 9789004346864
Abstract
This contribution focuses on the presence and function of prose rubrics in fifteenth and sixteenth-century lyric collections. On the one hand, this understudied paratextual component can be analysed as a specific form of self-commentary; on the other, it offers a privileged perspective on the relationship between the narrative and the lyric in early modern poetry. The chapter is arranged into three sections, each moving from a pivotal book in the Italian lyric tradition (Dante’s Vita Nova, Petrarch’s Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, and Pietro Bembo’s famous 1501 edition of the latter work), and combines a historical-genealogical approach with a number of theoretical questions raised by the interaction of prose captions and verse in a lyric and self-exegetical context. Throughout the chapter, the issue of lyric ‘narrativity’ is examined both at the level of individual texts and at the macrotextual level.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2019. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400-1700 (Intersections). Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Italian (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2017 11:30 |
Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2021 12:23 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Brill |
Series Name: | Intersections |
Identification Number: | 10.1163/9789004396593_006 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119858 |