| Poliziano's Science of Tropes Contributor(s): Colilli, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820407887 ISBN-13: 9780820407883 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $41.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Ancient & Classical - Literary Criticism | European - Italian |
| Dewey: 871.04 |
| LCCN: 88021769 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 189 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For Poliziano philology opens man to the experience of the uncanniness of tropes. In the "Lamia" he proposes a rethinking of philology's ontological status: philology as a science and encyclopedia of tropes. Such a critical frame-of-mind informs the major poetic writings. In the "Stanze, " Poliziano employs the trope of metalepsis as a means of both grounding a dialectic with the past, and reinventing a literary language. The "Favola" "di Orfeo, " whose aesthetic hub is nourished by the cognitive capacity of poetic utterance, is an allegory of metaphor's ability to lead to the disclosure of the originary locus. |