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The Manly Masquerade
Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
Taschenbuch von Valeria Finucci
Sprache: Englisch

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"Valeria Finucci's book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less 'luminous' aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture."--Armando Maggi, author of "Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology"
"Valeria Finucci's book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less 'luminous' aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture."--Armando Maggi, author of "Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology"
Über den Autor

Valeria Finucci is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the author of The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto. She is editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso and coeditor of Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, both published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Body and Generation in the Early Modern Period 1

1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births 37

2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby M[ale] in Machiavelli's La mandragola 79

3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata 119

4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso 159

5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria 189

6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato 225

Selected Bibliography 281

Index 307
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780822330653
ISBN-10: 0822330652
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Finucci, Valeria
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 238 x 154 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Valeria Finucci
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.03.2003
Gewicht: 0,508 kg
Artikel-ID: 108261264
Über den Autor

Valeria Finucci is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the author of The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto. She is editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso and coeditor of Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, both published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Body and Generation in the Early Modern Period 1

1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births 37

2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby M[ale] in Machiavelli's La mandragola 79

3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata 119

4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso 159

5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria 189

6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato 225

Selected Bibliography 281

Index 307
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780822330653
ISBN-10: 0822330652
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Finucci, Valeria
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 238 x 154 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Valeria Finucci
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.03.2003
Gewicht: 0,508 kg
Artikel-ID: 108261264
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