Christopher Nissen

Kissing the Wild Woman

Concepts of Art, Beauty, and the Italian Prose Romance in Giulia Bigolina's Urania

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Produktbeschreibung

Kissing the Wild Woman's analysis of this little-known work adds a new dimension to the study of Renaissance aesthetics in relation to art history, Renaissance thought, women's studies, and Italian literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781487526221
• ISBN-10: 1487526229
• Artikelnr.: 58817945

Autorenporträt

By Christopher Nissen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1  The Reformation of the Prose Romance
Bigolina's Cultural Formation
Elements of the Prose Romance
The Plot and Characters of Urania
The Prose Romance According to Boccaccio
Urania in Its Literary Context
Bigolina's Defense of Women
2  Writing a Portrait
 Bigolina and Aretino
 Portraiture in Urania
 The Caricature of Titian
 Of Mirrors, Istoria and Women in the Arts
3  Ekphrasis and the Paragone 
Ekphrasis in Western Literature
Bigolina and the Paragone
The Judgment of Paris
Descriptio Mulieris
Bigolina's Two Venuses
The Book as Object
4  The Sight of the Beautiful
Beauty and the Senses in Urania
Sight in the Doctrines of Love
The Body, the Gaze, and the Arts
The Woman's Portrait as Gift
5  Kissing the Wild Woman
Wildness in Urania
Urania's (Nearly) Mad Flight
Femina Salvatica
The Game of the Senses
Conclusion 
Appendix: Bigolina's Will in the State Archive of Padua
Text and Translation
Bibliography