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Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of Orlando Furioso
Proclaiming a Classic The Canonization of Orlando Furioso
Author: Daniel Javitch
Despite its immediate popularity and its acclaim as a modern equal of the ancient epics, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (published in its final version in 1532) was for learned readers a perplexing work: it mixed romance, epic, and lyric poetry, poked fun at its marvelous and outmoded chivalric matter, contained many interrupted narrative threads, an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691065496
ISBN-10: 0691065497
Publication Date: 6/1991
Pages: 216
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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