A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento

book: A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento

Edited by: Marc Föcking , Susanne A. Friede , Florian Mehltretter and Angela Oster
Funded by: FWF and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Volume 1 in the series Classicism and Beyond / Il classicismo e oltre

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783438

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‘Anticlassicisms,’ as a plural, react to the many possible forms of ‘classicisms.’ In the sixteenth century, classicist tendencies range from humanist traditions focusing on Horace and the teachings of rhetoric, via Pietro Bembo’s canonization of a ‘second antiquity’ in the works of the fourteenth-century classics, Petrarch and Boccaccio, to the Aristotelianism of the second half of the century. Correspondingly, the various tendencies to destabilize or to subvert or contradict these manifold and historically dynamic ‘classicisms’ need to be distinguished as so many ‘anticlassicisms’. This volume, after discussing the history and possible implications of the label ‘anticlassicism’ in Renaissance studies, differentiates and analyzes these ‘anticlassicisms.’ It distinguishes the various forms of opposition to ‘classicisms’ as to their scope (on a scale between radical poetological dissension to merely sectorial opposition in a given literary genre) and to their alternative models, be they authors (like Dante) or texts. At the same time, the various chapters specify the degree of difference or erosion inherent in anticlassicist tendencies with respect to their ‘classicist’ counterparts, ranging from implicit ‘system disturbances’ to open, intended antagonism (as in Bernesque poetry), with a view to establishing an overall picture of this field of phenomena for the first time.

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Marc Föcking, Hamburg University; Susanne A. Friede, Bochum University; Florian Mehltretter and Angela Oster, LMU Munich, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Four Types of Anti-classicism Marc Föcking, Susanne A. Friede, Florian Mehltretter and Angela Oster Open Access Download PDF	1
1 Explicit Anti-classicism Susanne A Friede, Aina Sandrini and Avi Liberman Open Access Download PDF	13
2 Implicit Anti-classicism Marc Föcking and Daniel Fliege Open Access Download PDF	105
3 Alternative Classicism Florian Mehltretter, Sascha Resch, Giulia Lombardi and Matteo Cazzato Open Access Download PDF	167
4 Benvenuto Cellini as a Paradigm of Para-classicism in the Cinquecento Angela Oster Open Access Download PDF	233
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	279
Index nominum Open Access Download PDF	327

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers working in the fields of Renaissance Studies, Italian Studies, Literary History
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 332
Keywords: Classicism; Anticlassicism; Renaissance; Italian Cultural History

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Published: March 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783110783438

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Published: March 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783110783339