A01=Maggie Gunsberg
aristotelian influence
Author_Maggie Gunsberg
Book III
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Del Poeta
Delle Cose
Dual Order
epic narrative structure
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freudian literary analysis
gerusalemme
Gerusalemme Conquistata
Gerusalemme Liberata
Il Guardo
Il Poeta
La Favola
lacanian criticism
Le Cose
liberata
Lo Stile
Ma Construction
Ma Il
Ma La Terra
Ma Ne
Ma Si
Maggie Gunsberg
Mirror Episode
Mirror Ritual
Ordo Artificialis
Poema Eroico
Pur Le
Rhetorica Ad Herennium
rhetorical theory in italian literature
russian formalism
sixteenth-century poetics
Product details
- ISBN 9781900755054
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Maggie Gunsberg examines the "poetica" and "poesia" of Tasso in the context of the historical and cultural climate in which he lived. His epic theory is explored from the point of view of three rhetorical faculties current in 16th-century poetics: "inventio", "dispositio" and "elocutio". His discussion of "dispositio" reveals a fascinating similarity with ideas on art expressed by the Russian Formalists in the 1920s, a coincidence that can be attributed to the lasting influence of Aristotelian writings on plot. In her textual analysis of "Gerusalemme liberata", Dr. Gunsberg uses modern methodologies drawing on Freud, Lacan and the ideology of body language to develop new ways of reading the epic text. The two parts of this study, dealing with Tasso's theory and practice respectively, offer complementary aproaches that together illuminate his epic contribution.
