Force and Human Suffering in Sixteenth-century Epic Poetry: Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata and Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga’s Araucana
Publication Type |
Thesis |
Year of Publication |
2008 |
Author |
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Academic Department |
Romance Languages |
Pages |
298 |
Publisher |
University of Oregon |
Place Published |
Eugene, Oregon |
Work Type |
Diss |
Language |
English |
Advisor |
Lollini, Massimo |
Keywords |
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Annotation |
Picicici uses Weil's notion of force as presented in her work The Iliad or the Poem of Force as an interpretative lens for reading 'Virgilian and late Renaissance epic poetry" (p. iv). In particular Picicci focuses on two poems in the dissertation: Tasso's “Gerusalemme Liberata” and Ercilla's “Araucana”. In so doing, Picicci offers a fairly in depth discussion of Weil's essay, comparing her notion of force to Virgil's concept of furor. |