The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso: Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781900755054 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 253 str.

Gunsberg, Maggie

Opis

The author examines the poetica and poesia of Torquatto Tasso (1544-95) in the context of the historical and cultural climate in which he lived. His epic theory is explored from the point of view of the 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 1920's, a coincidence that can be attributed to the lasting influence of Aristotelian writings on plot. Dr Gunsberg draws on methodologies based on Freud, Lacan and the ideology of body language in her analysis of the Gerusalemme liberata .

Spis treści

Introduction PART I Poetica: Tasso’s Epic Theory and the Rhetorical Tradition 1 Inventio 2 Dispositio 3 Elocutio PART II Poesia: Rhetorical Practice in the Gerusalemme liberate 4 Negation 5 The Mirror Episode 6 The Ideology of the Look

O autorze

Maggie Gunsberg