Beschreibung:
This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.
This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.
Introduction The ItalianDisperata: Origins and Definitions The Female-VoicedDisperata TheDisperata in the Quattrocento TheDisperata in the Cinquecento TheDisperata in France Disperata and Desespoir Conclusion