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Titian’S Bacchus And His Two Loves, Fern Luskin Apr 2025

Titian’S Bacchus And His Two Loves, Fern Luskin

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Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne represents not only Bacchus' attraction to Ariadne, as has long been recognized, but also his infatuation with a boy-satyr, Ampelos, who struts at the centre of the composition. The little satyr's identity, recognized in the seventeenth century, but overlooked by modern scholars, is confirmed by newly revealed pentimenti. Titian was probably the first to embed this homoerotic love story in a painting depicting the Bacchus and Ariadne myth. The textual impetus for Titian's inclusion of the Ampelos myth was Nonnos' Dionysiaca. Guided by Nonnos' text, Titian alludes not only to Bacchus' love for Ampelos, …


Piero Della Francesca And The Invention Of The Artist [Book Review], Fern Luskin Apr 2023

Piero Della Francesca And The Invention Of The Artist [Book Review], Fern Luskin

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No abstract provided.


Wench, Witch, Wife, Widow: The Power Of Address Terms In The Witch Of Edmonton, Laura Kolb Feb 2023

Wench, Witch, Wife, Widow: The Power Of Address Terms In The Witch Of Edmonton, Laura Kolb

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This chapter explores address terms and their power to shape social reality, especially for women and the socially precarious. The opening of The Witch of Edmonton—“Come, wench!”—is the first of many moments in which one character classifies another in terms of gender, class, or social position. Tracking characters’ reactions to being named (and thereby “placed”) reveals divergent perspectives on the fit between assigned social identity and self-evaluation.


Remixing The Canon: Shakespeare, Popular Culture, And The Undergraduate Editor, Andie Silva Jan 2022

Remixing The Canon: Shakespeare, Popular Culture, And The Undergraduate Editor, Andie Silva

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This essay explores the benefits and challenges of using digital editing as a platform for social knowledge production. First, I discuss the underlying impetus for the project, my choice of Scalar as a digital platform, and a number of specific assignments designed to develop skills toward the final edition. Next, I analyze examples from student work, considering the larger implications of students’ annotation choices and the thematic focus each of them chose for their acts. Finally, I outline some of the potential pitfalls of this course. My aim is to privilege students’ discovery, negotiation, and ownership of ideas. As a …


Feminine Performance In The Taming Of The Shrew: Final Speech And Missing Soliloquy, Laura Kolb Jan 2022

Feminine Performance In The Taming Of The Shrew: Final Speech And Missing Soliloquy, Laura Kolb

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Quevedo Y La Tupida Selva Europea Del Anacreón Castellano, Adrian Izquierdo Jan 2022

Quevedo Y La Tupida Selva Europea Del Anacreón Castellano, Adrian Izquierdo

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‘Framed And Clothed With Variety’: Print Culture, Multimodality, And Visual Design In John Derricke’S Image Of Irelande, Andie Silva Jan 2020

‘Framed And Clothed With Variety’: Print Culture, Multimodality, And Visual Design In John Derricke’S Image Of Irelande, Andie Silva

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This chapter argues that the twelve illustrative plates in John Derricke's Image of Ireland (1581) were the author's primary focus, aimed at readers who practiced the kinds of ‘laudable exercises’ demanded of committed Protestants: a kind of reading that was recursive, studious, and dynamic. This essay contextualises Derricke’s Image in relation to printer John Day’s output in the late sixteenth century as well as to contemporary illustrated texts from which Derricke may have drawn inspiration as a reader and woodcarver. I focus on the seven plates containing small alphabetical keys and their impact on how and in what order we …


Sibling Affection And Domestic Heterosexuality In Lodovick Carlell’S The Deserving Favorite, Mario Digangi Apr 2017

Sibling Affection And Domestic Heterosexuality In Lodovick Carlell’S The Deserving Favorite, Mario Digangi

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Lodowick Carlell’s play The Deserving Favorite (1629) deploys the ideological strategy of using erotic “likeness” to validate marital unions as consensual and erotically compatible. In an era before the normalization of heterosexuality, the play suggests that sexually passionate marital relations earn legitimacy to the degree that they emulate the affectionate relations between women and between siblings. Although eroticized female friendship approaches the ideal of a consensual and sensual partnership, intimate relations between women seem best to thrive in a separatist environment removed from courtly social and economic exchanges, including the marital negotiations crucial to cementing dynastic and political alliances. Brothers …


Titian, Colonna And The Renaissance Science Of Procreation: Equicola's Seasons Of Desire [Book Review], Fern Luskin Oct 2012

Titian, Colonna And The Renaissance Science Of Procreation: Equicola's Seasons Of Desire [Book Review], Fern Luskin

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No abstract provided.


Unchaste Veneration In Titian's Worship Of Venus, Fern Luskin Jan 2011

Unchaste Veneration In Titian's Worship Of Venus, Fern Luskin

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The identity, activities, and attributes of Venus and her devotees in Titian's Worship of Venus have long been misunderstood. Although based on Philostratus' Erotes, Titian's actual textual source was Demetrios Moschos' Italian translation of the Erotes. Previous analyses of Titian's painting have relied either on faulty transcriptions and translations of Moschos' Amori, or on the original Greek or Loeb edition of Philostratus, which differ from Moschos' work. A careful translation of Moschos' text, closely compared to Titian's painting, yields a new interpretation of its theme, riddles, and humorous double entendres pointing toward a decidedly unchaste Venus worshipped not …


Conference Reports: Society For Renaissance Studies Third International Conference, Fern Luskin Apr 2009

Conference Reports: Society For Renaissance Studies Third International Conference, Fern Luskin

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Report from the Third International Conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, July 10-12, 2008.


Sexual Slander And Working Women In "The Roaring Girl", Mario Digangi Jan 2003

Sexual Slander And Working Women In "The Roaring Girl", Mario Digangi

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Though scholarship of the early modern era focuses on the character of Moll Frith when considering the gender ideology contained in Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's "The Roaring Girl," the play's other female characters are also of interest. The "citizen wives" of the play are women who, though married, work outside the home. Their special status in the emerging capitalist marketplace of the early modern era gave rise to unique anxieties about their economic power and sexual availability. These anxieties in turn made these women especially susceptible to slander against their sexual reputation and thus respectability in the community. An …