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Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance

Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne

By: Cynthia Skenazi

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Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance

Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne

By: Cynthia Skenazi

In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time.

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192

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BRILL

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ISBN 10

9004255729

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9789004255722

Love's Wounds

Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe

By: Cynthia N. Nazarian

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Love's Wounds

Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe

By: Cynthia N. Nazarian

Love's Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourteenth-century Italy, this book shows how Petrarch established a pattern of inequality between suffering poet and exalted Beloved rooted in political parrhēsia. Sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French and English poets reshaped his model into an idiom of extravagant brutality coded to their own historical circumstances. Cynthia N. Nazarian argues that these poets exaggerated the posture of the downtrodden lover, adapting the rhetoric of powerless desire to forge a new "countersovereignty" from within the heart of vulnerability—a potentially revolutionary position through which to challenge cultural, religious, and political authority. Creating a secular equivalent to the martyr, early modern sonneteers crafted a voice that was both critical and unstoppable because it suffered.Love’s Wounds tracks the development of the countersovereign voice from Francesco Petrarca to Maurice Scève, Joachim du Bellay, Théodore-Agrippa d’Aubigné, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare. Through interdisciplinary and transnational analyses, Nazarian reads early modern sonnets as sites of contestation and collaboration and rewrites the relationship between early modern literary forms.

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403

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Cornell University Press

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1501708252

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9781501708251

Poets, Patrons, and Printers

Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France

By: Cynthia J. Brown

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Poets, Patrons, and Printers

Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France

By: Cynthia J. Brown

Cynthia J. Brown explains why the advent of print in the late medieval period brought about changes in relationships among poets, patrons, and printers which led to a new conception of authorship. Examining such paratextual elements of manuscripts as title pages, colophons, and illustrations as well as such literary strategies as experimentation with narrative voice, Brown traces authors' attempts to underscore their narrative presence in their works and to displace patrons from their role as sponsors and protectors of the book. Her accounts of the struggles of poets, including Jean Lemaire, Jean Bouchet, Jean Molinet, and Pierre Gringore, over the design, printing, and sale of their books demonstrate how authors secured the status of literary proprietor during the transition from the culture of script and courtly patronage to that of print capitalism.

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483

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Cornell University Press

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150174254X

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9781501742545

Not as It Seems

By: Cynthia Turner

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Not as It Seems

By: Cynthia Turner

Jazmynne Kennedy is a strong Christian woman who has the gift of helping people through their psychological turmoil. She is one of the top psychotherapists in the country and often sought after by people dealing with all sorts of addictions and mental illnesses. Jazmynne has a life changing experience that leaves her perplexed and vulnerable when she meets the gorgeous Bryce Vance. Will she be able to treat him like any other client, or will she give in to his good looks and charm? This psychological thriller will keep you guessing until the last page.

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241

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Xlibris Corporation

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198457051X

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9781984570512

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Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance

Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance

Love's Wounds

Love's Wounds

Poets, Patrons, and Printers

Poets, Patrons, and Printers

Not as It Seems

Not as It Seems

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