TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bettella,Patrizia
TI  - The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque 
T2  - Toronto Italian Studies
SN  - 9780802039262
AV  - PQ4055.W6 
U1  - 851.009/3522 
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Italian poetry
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Misogyny in literature
KW  - Ugliness in literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
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