The Ugly Woman : Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque.

Taking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression, The Ugly Woman is a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in...

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Main Author: Bettella, Patrizia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central