Kissing the Wild Woman

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

AvChristopher Nissen

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Giulia Bigolina's (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wild Woman, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina's greatest surviving work, in which she fashioned a new type of narrative that combined elements of the romance and the novella and included a polemical treatise on the moral implications of portraiture and the role of women in the arts. Demonstrating that Bigolina challenged cultural authority by rejecting the prevailing views of both painting and literature, Nissen discusses Bigolina's suggestion that painting constituted an ineffectual, even immoral mode of self-promotion for women in relation to the views of the contemporary writer Pietro Aretino and the painter Titian. 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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Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-07
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:1 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Toronto Italian Studies
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487526221

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Christopher Nissen is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at Northern Illinois University.

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‘Nissen offers to the modern reader of Bigolina’s Urania a comprehensive and erudite perspective on this author’s place in literary history…This is a book that will be useful to scholars in all fields whose research depends on historicizing and theorizing genre, gender, and representation.’ - Stephanie Jed (Renaissance Quarterly; vol 65:03:2012)

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Introduction 1 The Reformation of the Prose RomanceBigolina's Cultural FormationElements of the Prose RomanceThe Plot and Characters of UraniaThe Prose Romance According to BoccaccioUrania in Its Literary ContextBigolina's Defense of Women2 Writing a Portrait Bigolina and AretinoPortraiture in Urania The Caricature of TitianOf Mirrors, Istoria and Women in the Arts3 Ekphrasis and the Paragone Ekphrasis in Western LiteratureBigolina and the ParagoneThe Judgment of ParisDescriptio MulierisBigolina's Two VenusesThe Book as Object4 The Sight of the BeautifulBeauty and the Senses in Urania Sight in the Doctrines of LoveThe Body, the Gaze, and the ArtsThe Woman's Portrait as Gift5 Kissing the Wild WomanWildness in UraniaUrania's (Nearly) Mad FlightFemina SalvaticaThe Game of the SensesConclusion Appendix: Bigolina's Will in the State Archive of PaduaText and TranslationBibliography