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Kissing the Wild Woman : Concepts of Art, Beauty, and the Italian Prose Romance in Giulia Bigolina's ‹em›Urania‹/em› / Christopher Nissen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442643406
  • 9781442696020
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 853/.4 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4610.B58 Z65 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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