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Uttering the Word

The Mystical Performances of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, a Renaissance Visionary

By: Armando Maggi

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Uttering the Word

The Mystical Performances of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, a Renaissance Visionary

By: Armando Maggi

Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, Uttering the Word provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566–1607), an important but neglected Renaissance mystic. Borrowing from Lacan, de Certeau, and Deleuze, Maggi analyzes de' Pazzi's unique mystical discourse and studies how the Florentine visionary interprets the relationship between orality and writing, authorship and audience, sexual identity and language.

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State University of New York Press

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1438411677

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9781438411675

Preserving the Spell

Basile's "The Tale of Tales" and Its Afterlife in the Fairy-Tale Tradition

By: Armando Maggi

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Preserving the Spell

Basile's "The Tale of Tales" and Its Afterlife in the Fairy-Tale Tradition

By: Armando Maggi

Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous—in the hands of Hollywood, they have been stripped of their power, offering little but formulaic narratives and tame surprises. If we want to rediscover the power of fairy tales—as Armando Maggi thinks we should—we need to discover a new mythic lens, a new way of approaching and understanding, and thus re-creating, the transformative potential of these stories. In Preserving the Spell, Maggi argues that the first step is to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that together created the fairy tales we know today. He begins his exploration with the ur-text of European fairy tales, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales, then traces its path through later Italian, French, English, and German traditions, with particular emphasis on the Grimm Brothers’ adaptations of the tales, which are included in the first-ever English translation in an appendix. Carrying his story into the twentieth century, Maggi mounts a powerful argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating our belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories.

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University of Chicago Press

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022624301X

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9780226243016

Satan's Rhetoric

A Study of Renaissance Demonology

By: Armando Maggi

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Satan's Rhetoric

A Study of Renaissance Demonology

By: Armando Maggi

Reading innumerable treatises on demonology written during the Renaissance, including Thesaurus exorcismorum, the most important record of early modern exorcisms, Maggi finds repeated attempts to define the language exchanged between the fallen progeny of Adam, and the most notorious fallen angel of them all, Satan. Using points of departure taken from de Certeau and Lacan, Maggi shows that Satan articulates his language first and foremost in the mind. More than speaking, the devil tries to make human beings understand his language and speak it themselves.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226501329

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9780226501321

In the Company of Demons

Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance

By: Armando Maggi

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In the Company of Demons

Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance

By: Armando Maggi

Who are the familiar spirits of classical culture and what is their relationship to Christian demons? In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, semi-gods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates.But with In the Company of Demons, the world’s leading demonologist Armando Maggi argues that the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance had a more nuanced and perhaps less sinister interpretation of these creatures or spiritual bodies. Maggi leads us straight to the heart of what Italian Renaissance culture thought familiar spirits were. Through close readings of Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Strozzi Cigogna, Pompeo della Barba, Ludovico Sinistrari, and others, we find that these spirits or demons speak through their sudden and striking appearances—their very bodies seen as metaphors to be interpreted. The form of the body, Maggi explains, relies on the spirits’ knowledge of their human interlocutors’ pasts. But their core trait is compassion, and sometimes their odd, eerie arrivals are seen as harbingers or warnings to protect us. It comes as no surprise then that when spiritual beings distort the natural world to communicate, it is vital that we begin to listen.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226501299

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9780226501291

La Raza Unida Party

By: Armando Navarro

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La Raza Unida Party

By: Armando Navarro

A comprehensive study of an ethnic political movement.

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Temple University Press

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1439905584

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In the Company of Demons

Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance

By: Armando Maggi

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Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance

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Uttering the Word

The Mystical Performances of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, a Renaissance Visionary

By: Armando Maggi

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Uttering the Word

The Mystical Performances of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, a Renaissance Visionary

By: Armando Maggi

Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, Uttering the Word provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607), an important but neglected Renaissance mystic. Borrowing from Lacan, de Certeau, and Deleuze, Maggi analyzes de' Pazzi's unique mystical discourse and studies how the Florentine visionary interprets the relationship between orality and writing, authorship and audience, sexual identity and language.

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SUNY Press

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0791439011

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Uttering the Word

Uttering the Word

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In the Company of Demons

La Raza Unida Party

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