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- Title
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Overcoming Poetic Immortality in Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Conquistata.
- Authors
Brazeau, Bryan
- Abstract
The article analyzes the poem "Gerusalemme Conquistata" by Torquato Tasso. In critiquing the poem, a revised edition of Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata," the author suggests that the development of heroic identity within Homeric poetry creates ideological conflicts within Tasso's Christian epic poem. Particular attention is given to the characters Tancredi, the Christian knight, and Argant, the pagan warrior and how Tasso applied concepts of immortality and mourning in each version of the poem.
- Subjects
GERUSALEMME Conquistata (Poem); TASSO, Torquato, 1544-1595; GERUSALEMME Liberata (Poem : Tasso); CHRISTIAN poetry; EPIC poetry; IMMORTALITY of the soul in literature; GRIEF in literature
- Publication
MLN, 2014, Vol 129, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0026-7910
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/mln.2014.0008