Reading Old BooksPub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691195353-003
{"title":"Chapter one. Petrarch, Scholarship, and Traditions of Love Poetry","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780691195353-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691195353-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337490,"journal":{"name":"Reading Old Books","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131205598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reading Old BooksPub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691195353-008
{"title":"Conclusion. Writers’ and Readers’ Traditions","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780691195353-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691195353-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337490,"journal":{"name":"Reading Old Books","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132230998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reading Old BooksPub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691195353-004
{"title":"Chapter Two. Chaucer and Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780691195353-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691195353-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337490,"journal":{"name":"Reading Old Books","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133400423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reading Old BooksPub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691195353-002
{"title":"Introduction. Ideas of Literary Tradition","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780691195353-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691195353-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337490,"journal":{"name":"Reading Old Books","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130762610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780691195353-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691195353-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337490,"journal":{"name":"Reading Old Books","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125882900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reading Old BooksPub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691195353-011
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780691195353-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691195353-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337490,"journal":{"name":"Reading Old Books","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134365464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTRODUCTION:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvf3w3x0.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvf3w3x0.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337490,"journal":{"name":"Reading Old Books","volume":"463 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115921507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reading Old BooksPub Date : 2019-09-24DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691194004.003.0004
P. Mack
{"title":"Renaissance Epics: Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser","authors":"P. Mack","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691194004.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691194004.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter takes a look at Orlando Furioso (1516, 1532), Gerusalemme Liberata (1581), and The Faerie Queene (1596), which are the recognized epic masterpieces of their eras. They draw in succession on each other and on a wide range of classical and romance texts, many of them known to the first audiences of these three poems. The chapter investigates the ways in which Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, and Edmund Spenser used their predecessors and the different effects they achieved from a shared heritage. It examines the ways in which a series of authors used both their immediate predecessors and their sense of a long tradition of epic writing to create something new. The chapter argues that Ariosto aimed to shock and surprise his audience. Tasso reacted to Ariosto by combining a more serious and unified epic on the lines of the Iliad. Spenser's idea of devoting each book to a hero and a virtue presents a structure which is easier to comprehend than Ariosto's, yet looser and more open to surprises than Tasso's.","PeriodicalId":337490,"journal":{"name":"Reading Old Books","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115931473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reading Old BooksPub Date : 2019-09-24DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691194004.003.0001
P. Mack
{"title":"Ideas of Literary Tradition","authors":"P. Mack","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691194004.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691194004.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This introductory chapter discusses the ways in which the related notions of tradition and literary tradition have been used and analyzed. It begins by showing the complexity of the word's meanings and associations through a survey of its uses, based firmly on the Oxford English Dictionary and the work of Harry Levin. Then the chapter considers the influential literary approach to tradition in the work of the first French and English critics to exploit the term, Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot. Next, the chapter describes the generally negative approach to tradition in the sociological tradition. Afterward, it discusses the historical analysis of the invention of tradition as presented in the influential collection of essays under that title edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (1983). Finally, it looks in some detail at the very rich account of tradition presented in Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method (1960).","PeriodicalId":337490,"journal":{"name":"Reading Old Books","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134629916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}