Zucchero E Status E Tutto Bello,
2022
University of San Diego
Zucchero E Status E Tutto Bello, Ava Garofono
Italian 394: Italian Renaissance Foodways
No abstract provided.
Meet Me In The Middle Ages: Engaging With Fantasy, Reality, And Collaborative World-Building,
2022
Washington University in St. Louis
Meet Me In The Middle Ages: Engaging With Fantasy, Reality, And Collaborative World-Building, Amanda Greene
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This critical essay accompanies and describes my thesis project, Medievalia Miscellany, a magazine for middle-grade readers which explores the world of medieval fantasy through art, comics, stories, and activities. Throughout the essay, I use my own term “archaeological upcycling” to discuss and explore a variety of relationships between ideas of parts and a whole. I then use it to characterize the way stories are created out of many different parts and how these parts help a reader to relate to both the world of the story and the world in which they live. I describe the genre of medieval fantasy ...
Il Corpo E Il Sacrificio Delle Donne; Affermazione Femminile Di Sé Attraverso Il Cibo,
2022
University of San Diego
Il Corpo E Il Sacrificio Delle Donne; Affermazione Femminile Di Sé Attraverso Il Cibo, Katherine Sanchez
Italian 394: Italian Renaissance Foodways
No abstract provided.
The Consolation Of Exempla: Gower’S Sources Of Hope And “Textual Healing” In The Confessio Amantis,
2022
Stuttgart University
The Consolation Of Exempla: Gower’S Sources Of Hope And “Textual Healing” In The Confessio Amantis, Curtis Runstedler
Accessus
This article examines the role of exempla as the root cause of hope and healing in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. I argue that these exempla provide remedial action in the text. The exempla are sources of metaphorical healing in the text, functioning as what I have termed “textual healing,” that is the medicinal aspects of the text that helps remedy Amans (and the reader, to a certain extent) back to full health. This article also draws upon reading the Confessio Amantis as a consolatio poem, linking it to Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy in particular. I also discuss the role ...
Maurice Scève Avant La Délie (1535–1544). Une Étude Des Genres Mineurs À L’Origine D’Une Nouvelle Esthétique Poétique,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Maurice Scève Avant La Délie (1535–1544). Une Étude Des Genres Mineurs À L’Origine D’Une Nouvelle Esthétique Poétique, Elizaveta Lyulekina
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Cette thèse propose d’étudier l’influence du poète lyonnais Maurice Scève, actif entre 1535 et 1562, sur la formation de genres littéraires et le développement de la poésie française de la Renaissance. Elle explore également la contribution considérable du poète à la création de l’identité linguistique et culturelle française.
This dissertation studies the influence of the Lyonnais poet Maurice Scève, active between 1535 and 1562, on the formation of literary genres and the development of French Renaissance poetry. It also explores the poet’s considerable contribution to the creation of French linguistic and cultural identity.
Dante's Inferno In The 21st Century,
2022
University of San Diego
Dante's Inferno In The 21st Century, Ethan Chebi
Italian 347: Out of Florence: Dante in Exile
No abstract provided.
Fun With Palamon And Arcite: Rationale And Strategies For Teaching The Two Noble Kinsmen As The Culmination Of The Shakespearean Canon,
2022
Jacksonville State University
Fun With Palamon And Arcite: Rationale And Strategies For Teaching The Two Noble Kinsmen As The Culmination Of The Shakespearean Canon, Joanne E. Gates
Presentations, Proceedings & Performances
Hardly noticed in the reception of Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human several years ago was his hint that not The Tempest but The Two Noble Kinsmen makes an appropriate final accomplishment. On one level, the play is merely a stage adaptation of Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, with a rather crude couple of subplots thrown in, perhaps to please the commoners. In an undergraduate forum, I am less inclined to evaluate Fletcher's contribution as distinct from Shakespeare, but I do think the play important for how it is representative of many of the co-authored ...
Shakespeare As Opera In English: Britten's Dream And Adès' The Tempest,
2022
Jacksonville State University
Shakespeare As Opera In English: Britten's Dream And Adès' The Tempest, Joanne E. Gates
Presentations, Proceedings & Performances
I assert that we learn Shakespeare better when we study him against the adaptation. Some of the adaptation choices made by opera composers and librettists-- and especially by stage designers in recent productions-- provoke us to critique a production concept for its innovative staging, forcing us to learn more about Shakespeare's original. The recent Metropolitan's The Tempest conveys the 2004 Thomas Adès Tempest as if an 18th century impresario Prospero had conjured or appropriated the contents of the Milan opera house to his island. Meredith Oakes's libretto simplifies much of Shakespearean language to efficient rhyming couplets, yet ...
"In Loving Virtue": Staging The Virgin Body In Early Modern Drama,
2022
Bowdoin College
"In Loving Virtue": Staging The Virgin Body In Early Modern Drama, Miranda Viederman
Honors Projects
The aim of this Honors project is to investigate representations of female virginity in Renaissance English dramatic works. I view the period as one in which the womb became the site of a unique renewal of cultural anxieties surrounding the stability of the patriarchy and the inaccessibility of female sexual desire. I am most interested in virginity as a “bodily narrative” dependent on the construction and maintenance of performance. I analyze representations of virginity in female characters from four works of drama originating in the Jacobean period of the English Renaissance, during and after the end of the reign of ...
"This Blessed Plot": An Ecocritical Approach To Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy,
2021
Dominican University of California
"This Blessed Plot": An Ecocritical Approach To Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy, Silvina Barna
Master of Arts in Humanities | Master's Theses
This research project aims at bringing to light the non-human dimension in Shakespeare’s second tetralogy, i.e., Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV and Henry V. In the context of the military confrontations that preceded the Wars of the Roses, the disruption of human relationships bears an impact on the land and the non-human cosmos in general. Through his literary craft and thorough understanding of human and non-human nature, Shakespeare reveals an intricate network of relationships, which, even when broken, can be mended.
My project is guided by a presentist understanding of literature. Studying the relationship between ...
Volgarizzamenti Italiani Del De Dictis Et Factis Alfonsi Regis Del Panormita // Italian Translations Of Il Panormita's De Dictis Et Factis Alfonsi Regis ,
2021
Università degli Studi della Basilicata
Volgarizzamenti Italiani Del De Dictis Et Factis Alfonsi Regis Del Panormita // Italian Translations Of Il Panormita's De Dictis Et Factis Alfonsi Regis , Fulvio Delle Donne
Translat Library
Antonio Beccadelli (called il Panormita) was the author of the De dictis et factis Alfonsi regis, a particularly important work for the cultural renewal centered on Alfonso the Magnanimous’s court in Naples. The large number of manuscripts, printed editions, and early translations of the De dictis attests to its widespread dissemination. This article examines two Italian translations of the De dictis from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Beinecke ms. 588, and Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele III”, ms. V. F. 36.
A Seventeenth-Century Air History In Conversation With Antony And Cleopatra,
2021
Binghamton University
A Seventeenth-Century Air History In Conversation With Antony And Cleopatra, Laura S. Deluca
Alpenglow: Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Activity
This article works to unpack the recurrences of air-related language utilized in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Throughout this play, the notions of breath, wind, air, and vapor are consistently referenced, demonstrating the way in which atmospheric intangibility was a key point of exploration for contemporary scientists and philosophers. Through this analysis, it is clear that Shakespeare employs breath in three ways: the breath of (public) life, a lack of breath, and, most importantly, breath as a symbol of power and autonomy, which at times overlaps with the breath of life in ways that demonstrate contemporary conceptualizations of living beings ...
Early Antiquarian Methodologies: Conflict In The Margins Of A Sixteenth-Century Copy Of Itinerarium Kambriae And Descriptio Kambriae,
2021
The University of Alabama
Early Antiquarian Methodologies: Conflict In The Margins Of A Sixteenth-Century Copy Of Itinerarium Kambriae And Descriptio Kambriae, Sarah J. Sprouse
Manuscript Studies
The Tudor period saw a revolution in antiquarian histories of Britain. Their networks of transmission largely circle around major collectors such as Matthew Parker and William Cecil. One prominent figure in Cecil’s orbit was Laurence Nowell, the antiquarian whose name is famously associated with the Beowulf manuscript (the “Nowell Codex”). Nowell made copies of the Itinerarium Kambriae and Descriptio Kambriae, both texts by Giraldus Cambrensis, from differing sources, resulting in the defective manuscript London, British Library Additional MS 43706. His colleague William Lambarde used the Add. MS 43706 as the basis for his copy of Descriptio Kambriae. However, before ...
Mentalités And The Search For Total History In The Works Of Annalistes, Foucault, And Microhistory,
2021
Western Michigan University
Mentalités And The Search For Total History In The Works Of Annalistes, Foucault, And Microhistory, Jason U. Rose
The Hilltop Review
In this brief essay, the links between the Annales, the works of Michael Foucault, and microhistory are analyzed through the theoretical lens of histoire des mentalités (mentalités). Common threads that link these approaches include the willingness of using outside fields of analysis as well as the willingness to work with vagueness in search of those who Foucault calls, “lost people.” Relatedly, each of these groups and individuals are willing to analyze all aspects of the historical record to fully understand the minds, cultures, and histories of past people. The key to recognizing the relationship of these approaches involve knowing and ...
The Consolation Of Dulness: The Influence Of Boethius On Pope's Dunciad,
2021
University of Dallas
The Consolation Of Dulness: The Influence Of Boethius On Pope's Dunciad, Clarke Peterson
Electronic Dissertations & Theses
Alexander Pope’s Dunciad explicitly draws from major literary and philosophical texts ranging from the Bible to The Aeneid to Paradise Lost, but scholars have heretofore not observed how The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius shapes and informs the text. After establishing the historical fact that Pope read and seriously engaged with Boethius, my thesis endeavors to establish a few key ways in which some of The Dunciad’s most famous puzzles are elucidated when read with an eye to The Consolation. Specifically, my thesis contends that the character of Lady Philosophy was one of the progenitor images Pope drew ...
The Literary Controversies Of Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling,
2021
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
The Literary Controversies Of Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling, Victoria Duehring
The Forum: Journal of History
This literary review will focus on Michelangelo’s most significant work of color: the Sistine ceiling. Michelangelo’s work has spawned a plethora of literature, but this paper will focus on three main controversial topics: assistants (or lack thereof), the ignudi’s purpose, and restoration. I will also apply a psycho-historical approach to these controversies and identify potential avenues for future research.
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2021
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
“The Badge Of All Our Tribe”: Contradictions Of Jewish Representation On The English Renaissance Stage,
2021
University of Massachusetts Amherst
“The Badge Of All Our Tribe”: Contradictions Of Jewish Representation On The English Renaissance Stage, Becky S. Friedman
Doctoral Dissertations
Literary and historical records fueled fantasies of intense difference between the Jews and Christians of early modern England. Representations of Jewishness in the Renaissance theater drew on many of these enduring pejorative fictions, which associated Jews with financial manipulation, corporeal abnormalities, and an innate predilection for iniquity. At the same time, depictions of stunningly beautiful Jewish women and sympathetic, relatable Jewish commoners also emerged on the stage, complicating centuries-old attitudes of antipathy with suggestions of fascination, compassion, and similitude. “The Badge of All Our Tribe”: Contradictions of Jewish Representation on the English Renaissance Stage sheds light on this broader spectrum ...
Theater Of Exchange: The Cosmopolitan Stage Of Jacobean London,
2021
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Theater Of Exchange: The Cosmopolitan Stage Of Jacobean London, Liz Fox
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation, Theater of Exchange: The Cosmopolitan Stage of Jacobean London, examines how early modern theater reflected and participated in the developing global economy and corresponding emergence of London as a capital of world mercantilism. I argue that moments of economic and cultural exchange appearing in work from Jacobean playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Francis Beaumont, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, and John Marston, mediated native and foreign influences and promoted cosmopolitan attitudes among playgoers. Reading plays through a lens of hybridity, this dissertation positions the early modern playhouse as a site of international integration and exchange that, like the emerging marketplace ...
"On Neptunes Watry Realmes": Maritime Law And English Renaissance Literature,
2021
University of Massachusetts Amherst
"On Neptunes Watry Realmes": Maritime Law And English Renaissance Literature, Hayley Cotter
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation stages an unprecedented dialogue between the maritime, the literary, and the legal within the context of the English Renaissance. It positions the ocean as an essentially legal space and argues that law mediates all human-ocean interactions. Additionally, it contends that an understanding of legal conceptions of the sea is essential to developing a cultural awareness of maritime space. Therefore, my project resituates early modern literary engagements with the ocean within a complex body of legal and political discourses and argues that in an island nation such as England, knowledge of the sea was widespread. Consequently, the ubiquitous maritime ...