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1 online resource (216 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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Summary |
Despite its immediate popularity and its acclaim as a modern equal of the ancient epics, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (published in its final version in 1532) was for learned readers a perplexing work: it mixed romance, epic, and lyric poetry, poked fun at its marvelous and outmoded chivalric matter, contained many interrupted narrative threads, and included base and lowborn characters. In exploring the literary debates involved in elevating the Furioso to the rank of a classic, Daniel Javitch maintains that this was the first work of modern poetry to provoke widespread critical controversy, a. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533. Orlando furioso.
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Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533. |
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Orlando furioso (Ariosto, Lodovico) |
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Roland (Legendary character) -- Romances -- History and criticism.
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Roland (Legendary character) |
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Romances. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Javitch, Daniel. Proclaiming a Classic : The Canonization of ""Orlando Furioso"". Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |
ISBN |
9781400861804 (electronic book) |
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1400861802 (electronic book) |
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