1st Edition

Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry

Edited By Unn Falkeid, Aileen Feng Copyright 2015
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

Despite the fact that Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) has been recognized as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on her work has been surprisingly scarce and uncoordinated. In recent years, critical attention towards her work has increased, but until now there have been no anthologies dedicated solely to Stampa. Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in... Read more
Introduction, UnnFalkeid, Aileen A.Feng; Part I The Sublime; Chapter 1 Naming Sappho, JaneTylus; Chapter 2, UnnFalkeid; Chapter 3, FedericoSchneider; Part II Real, Virtual, and Imagined Communities; Chapter 4 Desiring Subjects, Aileen A.Feng; Chapter 5 Voi e tu, Love and Law, Ann RosalindJones; Chapter 6 Le amiche carte, AngelaCapodivacca; Chapter 7 Writing as a Pro, William J.Kennedy; Part III Personae; Chapter 8 Playing (with) Personae, UlrikeSchneider, AchimHescher; Chapter 9 Gaspara Stampa as Salamander and Phoenix, VeronicaAndreani; Chapter 10 Anassilla, TroyTower;

Biography

Unn Falkeid is Research Fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, affiliated with the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. Aileen A. Feng is Assistant Professor of Italian and Faculty Affiliate in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.