Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance (Volume 25) (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA)

Navarrete, Ignacio

ISBN 10: 0520083733 / ISBN 13: 9780520083738

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1994

About this Item

Text has pencil markings in introduction and early chapters, the first 90 or so pages. Binding tight. Boards have light wear. Edges of pages have light wear. Dust jacket has light wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance (Volume 25) (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA)
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520083733
• ISBN 13: 9780520083738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

In Spain as elsewhere, Renaissance poets transformed the lyric tradition by using Petrarch as a source of poetic renewal. But political unity and military hegemony, coupled with a sense of cultural inferiority and an obsession with ethnic purity, made Spain different. Drawing on modern critical theory, Ignacio Navarrete offers a new exposition of the development of Spanish Renaissance poetics. Grounded in both philology and cultural theory, Orphans of Petrarch is the first book to integrate the "Spanish difference" into an understanding of Renaissance lyric as a European phenomenon.

About the Author

Ignacio Navarrete is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley.