Valeria Finucci

Broschiertes Buch

The Manly Masquerade

Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance

Beschreibung

"Valeria Finucci's book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less 'luminous' aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture."--Armando Maggi, author of "Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology"

Autor

Valeria Finucci is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the author of The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto. She is editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso and coeditor of Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, both published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330653
• ISBN-10: 0822330652
• Artikelnr.: 22064047