Petrarch
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Modern critical views
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Petrarch, 1304-1374 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Italian literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 163-165.
Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Scipio vs. Laura / Aldo S. Bernardo; value: The ascent of Mt. Ventoux and the crisis of allegory / Robert M. Durling; value: The fig tree and the laurel / John Freccero; value: The Canzoniere and the language of the self / Giuseppe Mazzotta; value: Negative stylistics / Marguerite Waller; value: Petrarch and the humanist hermeneutic / Thomas M. Greene; value: Classical heritage and Petrarchan self-consciousness in the literary emergence of the interior "I" / Aldo Scaglione; value: The figure of the reader in Petrarch's Secretum / Victoria Kahn.