Ugly Woman

Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque

Szerző: Patrizia Bettella

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University of Toronto Press

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The ugly woman is a surprisingly common figure in Italian poetry, one that has been frequently appro...

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Szerző

Patrizia Bettella

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2005

oldal

270

EAN

9780802039262

ISBN

080203926X

Enbook ID

04710650

Kiadó

University of Toronto Press

Súly

546

Méretek

163 x 240 x 29

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The ugly woman is a surprisingly common figure in Italian poetry, one that has been frequently appropriated by male poetic imagination to depict moral, aesthetic, social, and racial boundaries. Mostly used between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries - from the invectives of Rustico Filippi, Franco Sacchetti, and Burchiello, to the paradoxical praises of Francesco Berni, Niccolo Campani and Pietro Aretino, and further to the conceited encomia of Giambattista Marino and Marinisti - the portrayal of female unattractiveness was, argues Patrizia Bettella in The Ugly Woman, one way of figuring woman as 'other.'Bettella shows how medieval female ugliness included transgressive types ranging from the lustful old hag, to the slanderer, the wild woman, the heretic/witch, and the prostitute, whereas Early Modern unattractiveness targeted peasants, mountain dwellers, and black slaves: marginal women whose bodies and manners subvert aesthetic precepts of culturally normative beauty and propriety. Taking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression, The Ugly Woman is a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in literature.

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