TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nissen,Christopher
TI  - Kissing the Wild Woman: Concepts of Art, Beauty, and the Italian Prose Romance in Giulia Bigolina's ‹em›Urania‹/em› 
SN  - 9781442643406
AV  - PQ4610.B58 Z65 2011eb
U1  - 853/.4 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Aesthetics in literature
KW  - Beauty, Personal, in literature
KW  - Painting in literature
KW  - DISCOUNT-B
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The Reformation of the Prose Romance --; 2. Writing a Portrait --; 3. Ekphrasis and the Paragone --; 4. The Sight of the Beautiful --; 5. Kissing the Wild Woman --; Conclusion --; Appendix --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442696020
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442696020
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442696020/original
ER  -