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MARC Record from Library of Congress

Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part28.utf8:211487962:1663
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01663cam a2200277 a 4500
001 2001033993
003 DLC
005 20060721201116.0
008 010521s2001 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001033993
020 $a0198160151
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050 00 $aPQ4215$b.E94 2001
082 00 $a851/.0320902$221
100 1 $aEverson, J. E.$q(Jane E.)
245 14 $aThe Italian romance epic in the age of humanism :$bthe matter of Italy and the world of Rome /$cJane E. Everson.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2001.
300 $axii, 386 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 355-374) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Abbreviations xiii -- PART I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. Approaches to the Romance Epic 3 -- PART II. TEXTS AND CONTEXTS -- 2. Prehistory of the Romance Epic in Italy 27 -- 3. (Re-)Reading the Classics 52 -- 4. Petrarch and Boccaccio: Starting Points, Turning -- Points, and Blind Alleys 96 -- 5. Books, Readers, and Reception 127 -- PART III. NEW PERSPECTIVES, NEW READINGS -- 6. Mars and Venus-Love and War 163 -- 7. The Figure of the Hero 223 -- 8. The One and the Many: Constructing the Plot 271 -- PART IV. CONCLUSION -- 9. The Paradoxical Success of the Romance Epic: -- Ariosto and Beyond 327 -- Bibliography 355 -- Index 375.
650 0 $aEpic poetry, Italian$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHumanism$zItaly.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001033993.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0612/2001033993-d.html