TY - BOOK ID - 103610640 TI - The Wounded Body : Memory, Language and the Self from Petrarch to Shakespeare AU - Bondi, Fabrizio AU - Stella, Massimo AU - Torre, Andrea PY - 2022 SN - 303091903X 3030919048 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Italian literature KW - History and criticism. KW - European literature KW - Classical literature. KW - Literature, Ancient. KW - European literature. KW - Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. KW - Classical and Antique Literature. KW - European Literature. KW - Renaissance, 1450-1600. KW - Literature, Classical KW - Literature KW - Literature, Ancient KW - Greek literature KW - Latin literature KW - Literature, Renaissance KW - Renaissance literature KW - Literature, Modern UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103610640 AB - This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a ‘cultural symptom’ and a literary-visual trope at the core of representations of a new concept of selfhood in Early Modern Italian and English cultures, as expressed in the two complementary poles of poetry and theatre. The semantic field of the wounded body concerns both the image of the wound as a traumatic event, which leaves a mark on someone’s body and soul (and prompts one to investigate its causes and potential solutions), and the motif of the scar, which draws attention to the fact that time has passed and urges those who look at it to engage in an introspective and analytical process. By studying and describing the transmission of this metaphoric paradigm through the literary tradition, the contributors show how the image of the bodily wound—from Petrarch’s representation of the Self to the overt crisis that affects the heroes and the poetic worlds created by Ariosto and Tasso, Spenser and Shakespeare—could respond to the emergence of Modernity as a new cultural feature.. Fabrizio Bondi is Fellow of Italian Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy. Massimo Stella is Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Theory of Literature at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Andrea Torre is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy. ER -