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- Title
STYLE, THE MUSCLE OF THE SOUL. THEORIES ON READING AND WRITING IN PETRARCH'S TEXTS.
- Authors
Falkeid, Unn
- Abstract
With his deep passion for the Roman poets and historians and with his effort to transform the cultural agenda through a revival of Antiquity, Petrarch inaugurated new reading and writing practices that would influence and dominate future generations for centuries. Celebrated as the "father of humanism," he articulated a modern conception of authorship and a new understanding of self. However, a close reading of Petrarch's writings reveals from time to time a radical scepticism towards the assumptions underlying the hermeneutics of the humanists. The experience of historicity and of the radical instability of the world challenged the notion of a centred and coherent self. In other words: at the same time that he maintained the connection between authorship and identity Petrarch seemed to formulate as well a deep distrust of the concept of author itself.
- Subjects
LITERARY style; READING; AUTHORSHIP; PETRARCA, Francesco, 1304-1374; LATIN poets; HISTORIANS; HUMANISTS
- Publication
Quaderni d'italianistica, 2008, Vol 29, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0226-8043
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33137/q.i..v29i1.8492