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Book Review
Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue
2021
Overview
Each of the six chapters in the book - 'The shape of desire', 'Openness and intensity', 'Lust in action', 'Declensions of \"now\"', 'Extension', and 'Body' - is devoted to one of these possibilities. While most scholars have interpreted these texts in terms of a unidirectional transition between different phases in the subject's love experience and poetics, from Rvf 23 to Rvf 70, Gragnolati and Southerden show that the textual bridge between the two canzoni does not signal a linear conversion, but a circular return to the desire previously expressed in the former of the two poems. To better illustrate the non-linear circularity that exists between Rvf 23 and 70, the authors make effective use of the mathematical device of the Möbius strip as a representation of the notions of hybridity, movement, and return in Petrarch's poetry.
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Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
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