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Roland Greene 
Post-Petrarchism 
Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence

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Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francis Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the late fourteenth century. A framework in which poems are suspended according to some organizing or unifying principle, the lyric sequence emerges from European humanist culture as a poetic discourse that represents personal experience and operates as a kind of fiction. Here Roland Greene proposes that since Petrarch the lyric sequence has survived in European and American literatures–from Shakespeare’s Sonnets to The Waste Land to Trilce–as a complex in which formal, generic, and cultural designs intersect, and as an embodiment of lyric discourse at its most extensive, inclusive, and ambitious. Enabled by a theoretical introduction to the genre at large, the book treats the founding and elaboration of the vernacular sequence in six major texts by Petrarch, Philip Sidney, Edward Taylor, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, Pablo Neruda, and Martin Adan. Throughout Greene shows how Petrarchism has evolved as lyric discourse through its exposure to such events as the Reformation and Puritanism, the settlement of the New World, and the various modernisms of Europe and the Americas.
Originally published in 1991.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 306 ● ISBN 9781400861774 ● File size 11.6 MB ● Publisher Princeton University Press ● City Princeton ● Country US ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5490438 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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