The Resource The ugly woman : transgressive aesthetic models in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Patrizia Bettella
The ugly woman : transgressive aesthetic models in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Patrizia Bettella
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- Summary
- 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, Niccolò 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
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 259 pages).
- Contents
-
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Female Ugliness in the Middle Ages: The Old Hag""; ""Misogyny and Female Old Age in Medieval Culture""; ""Rhetoric and the Ugly""; ""Comic-Realistic Poetry: Rustico Filippi and Guido Guinizzelli""; ""Misogyny and Antistilnovismo: Cecco Angiolieri and NicolÃ2 deâ€? Rossi""; ""Stilnovistic Parody and Antifeminist Bias in Guido Cavalcanta and Niccola Muscia""; ""2 Transgression in the Trecento and Quattrocento: Guardian, Witch, Prostitute""; ""The Old Guardian in Comic Poetry and Franco Sacchetti""
- ""Descriptive Vituperation: Guarding and Slandering in Minstrel Poetry""""The Witch in Burchiello and Giovan Matteo di Meglio""; ""The Old Prostitute: Angelo Poliziano""; ""3 The Portrait of the Ugly Woman in the Renaissance: The Peasant, the Anti-Laura""; ""Paradoxical Praise""; ""Parody in Rustic Poetry""; ""Praised Ugliness/Otherness: The Peasant in Strascino, Berni, and Firenzuola""; ""Transgression on the Margins: The Disgusting Other""; ""Anti-Petrarchism: The Anti-Laura in Berni, Doni, and Aretino""; ""�Stanze in Praise of the Ugly Woman�""
- ""4 New Perspectives in Baroque Poetry: Unconventional Beauty""""From Ugliness to Unconventional Beauty""; ""The Dark Lady""; ""In Praise of Dark Hair""; ""In Praise of Dark Skin: The Exotic Other""; ""Female Old Age Revisited""; ""Lice and Fleas: Beauty and Vermin between Witticism and Parody""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
- Isbn
- 9781282029132
- Label
- The ugly woman : transgressive aesthetic models in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
- Title
- The ugly woman
- Title remainder
- transgressive aesthetic models in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
- Statement of responsibility
- Patrizia Bettella
- Subject
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- Femmes -- Dans la littérature
- Femmes dans la littérature
- Gedichten
- Italiaans
- Italian poetry
- Italian poetry -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | Italian
- Laideur -- Dans la littérature
- Laideur dans la littérature
- Lelijkheid
- Misogynie dans la littérature
- Misogyny in literature
- Misogyny in literature
- POETRY -- Continental European
- Poésie italienne -- Histoire et critique
- Poésie italienne -- Histoire et critique
- Ugliness in literature
- Ugliness in literature
- Vrouwen
- Women in literature
- Women in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Language
-
- eng
- ita
- eng
- Summary
- 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, Niccolò 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
- Cataloging source
- CaOONL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bettella, Patrizia
- Dewey number
- 851.009/3522
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- Text in English; verse in Italian
- LC call number
- PQ4055.W6
- LC item number
- B46 2005eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Toronto Italian studies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women in literature
- Ugliness in literature
- Misogyny in literature
- Italian poetry
- Femmes dans la littérature
- Laideur dans la littérature
- Poésie italienne
- POETRY
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Italian poetry
- Misogyny in literature
- Ugliness in literature
- Women in literature
- Gedichten
- Italiaans
- Vrouwen
- Lelijkheid
- Poésie italienne
- Laideur
- Misogynie dans la littérature
- Femmes
- Label
- The ugly woman : transgressive aesthetic models in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Patrizia Bettella
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Female Ugliness in the Middle Ages: The Old Hag""; ""Misogyny and Female Old Age in Medieval Culture""; ""Rhetoric and the Ugly""; ""Comic-Realistic Poetry: Rustico Filippi and Guido Guinizzelli""; ""Misogyny and Antistilnovismo: Cecco Angiolieri and NicolÃ2 deâ€? Rossi""; ""Stilnovistic Parody and Antifeminist Bias in Guido Cavalcanta and Niccola Muscia""; ""2 Transgression in the Trecento and Quattrocento: Guardian, Witch, Prostitute""; ""The Old Guardian in Comic Poetry and Franco Sacchetti""
- ""Descriptive Vituperation: Guarding and Slandering in Minstrel Poetry""""The Witch in Burchiello and Giovan Matteo di Meglio""; ""The Old Prostitute: Angelo Poliziano""; ""3 The Portrait of the Ugly Woman in the Renaissance: The Peasant, the Anti-Laura""; ""Paradoxical Praise""; ""Parody in Rustic Poetry""; ""Praised Ugliness/Otherness: The Peasant in Strascino, Berni, and Firenzuola""; ""Transgression on the Margins: The Disgusting Other""; ""Anti-Petrarchism: The Anti-Laura in Berni, Doni, and Aretino""; ""�Stanze in Praise of the Ugly Woman�""
- ""4 New Perspectives in Baroque Poetry: Unconventional Beauty""""From Ugliness to Unconventional Beauty""; ""The Dark Lady""; ""In Praise of Dark Hair""; ""In Praise of Dark Skin: The Exotic Other""; ""Female Old Age Revisited""; ""Lice and Fleas: Beauty and Vermin between Witticism and Parody""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
- Control code
- 244768712
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 259 pages).
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781282029132
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt5bxcj
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)244768712
- Label
- The ugly woman : transgressive aesthetic models in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Patrizia Bettella
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Female Ugliness in the Middle Ages: The Old Hag""; ""Misogyny and Female Old Age in Medieval Culture""; ""Rhetoric and the Ugly""; ""Comic-Realistic Poetry: Rustico Filippi and Guido Guinizzelli""; ""Misogyny and Antistilnovismo: Cecco Angiolieri and NicolÃ2 deâ€? Rossi""; ""Stilnovistic Parody and Antifeminist Bias in Guido Cavalcanta and Niccola Muscia""; ""2 Transgression in the Trecento and Quattrocento: Guardian, Witch, Prostitute""; ""The Old Guardian in Comic Poetry and Franco Sacchetti""
- ""Descriptive Vituperation: Guarding and Slandering in Minstrel Poetry""""The Witch in Burchiello and Giovan Matteo di Meglio""; ""The Old Prostitute: Angelo Poliziano""; ""3 The Portrait of the Ugly Woman in the Renaissance: The Peasant, the Anti-Laura""; ""Paradoxical Praise""; ""Parody in Rustic Poetry""; ""Praised Ugliness/Otherness: The Peasant in Strascino, Berni, and Firenzuola""; ""Transgression on the Margins: The Disgusting Other""; ""Anti-Petrarchism: The Anti-Laura in Berni, Doni, and Aretino""; ""�Stanze in Praise of the Ugly Woman�""
- ""4 New Perspectives in Baroque Poetry: Unconventional Beauty""""From Ugliness to Unconventional Beauty""; ""The Dark Lady""; ""In Praise of Dark Hair""; ""In Praise of Dark Skin: The Exotic Other""; ""Female Old Age Revisited""; ""Lice and Fleas: Beauty and Vermin between Witticism and Parody""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
- Control code
- 244768712
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 259 pages).
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781282029132
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt5bxcj
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)244768712
Subject
- Femmes -- Dans la littérature
- Femmes dans la littérature
- Gedichten
- Italiaans
- Italian poetry
- Italian poetry -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | Italian
- Laideur -- Dans la littérature
- Laideur dans la littérature
- Lelijkheid
- Misogynie dans la littérature
- Misogyny in literature
- Misogyny in literature
- POETRY -- Continental European
- Poésie italienne -- Histoire et critique
- Poésie italienne -- Histoire et critique
- Ugliness in literature
- Ugliness in literature
- Vrouwen
- Women in literature
- Women in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
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