Published by De Gruyter

Classicism and Beyond / Il classicismo e oltre

Edited by: Marc Föcking, Susanne A. Friede, Florian Mehltretter and Angela Oster

ISSN: 2940-0074

e-ISBN 2940-0082

Overview
Volumes

The new book series Classicism and Beyond / Il classicismo e oltre evolved on the basis of the funded research project "Anticlassicism in the Cinquecento" and is dedicated to the dynamic dialectic of poetological and aesthetic standardization efforts of the Italian Cinquecento and the counter- and alternative movements partly incorporated in, and partly excluded by, these efforts.

The book series will bring together works that examine this dialectic of stabilization and destabilization of classicist norm structures in literature from the Italian Cinquecento to the European 18th century in systematic, general approaches as well as readings of individual texts. It will also focus on the diachronic aspects of these dynamics, whether they constitute or destabilize epochs, and continue to raise the question of the pertinence of epoch labels such as "Renaissance", "Classicism", "Mannerism", "Baroque" or "Seicentismo".

Series editors

Marc Föcking (Hamburg University)

Susanne A. Friede (Bochum University)

Florian Mehltretter (Munich University, LMU)

Angela Oster (Munich University, LMU)

The volumes of the series are peer-reviewed.

Editorial Board

Antonio Corsaro (Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo)

Chiara Lastraioli (Université de Tours)

Sarah Rolfe Prodan (Stanford University)

Dietrich Scholler (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin)

Copyright cover image: Frans Huys, Groteske Maske, 1555, Kupferstich, Blatt 159x143 mm, Inventar-Nr.: FHuys WB 3.1b, (c) bpk Berlin / Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum

Author / Editor information

M. Föcking, Hamburg University; S.A. Friede, Bochum University; F. Mehltretter and A. Oster, Munich University (LMU), Germany.

Topics

Book Open Access 2023

A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento

Marc Föcking, Susanne A. Friede, Florian Mehltretter, Angela Oster, FWF, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Volume 1 in this series

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‘Anticlassicisms,’ as a plural, react to the many possible forms of ‘classicisms.’ In the sixteenth century, classicist tendencies range from humanist traditions focusing on Horace and the teachings of rhetoric, via Pietro Bembo’s canonization of a ‘second antiquity’ in the works of the fourteenth-century classics, Petrarch and Boccaccio, to the Aristotelianism of the second half of the century. Correspondingly, the various tendencies to destabilize or to subvert or contradict these manifold and historically dynamic ‘classicisms’ need to be distinguished as so many ‘anticlassicisms’. This volume, after discussing the history and possible implications of the label ‘anticlassicism’ in Renaissance studies, differentiates and analyzes these ‘anticlassicisms.’ It distinguishes the various forms of opposition to ‘classicisms’ as to their scope (on a scale between radical poetological dissension to merely sectorial opposition in a given literary genre) and to their alternative models, be they authors (like Dante) or texts. At the same time, the various chapters specify the degree of difference or erosion inherent in anticlassicist tendencies with respect to their ‘classicist’ counterparts, ranging from implicit ‘system disturbances’ to open, intended antagonism (as in Bernesque poetry), with a view to establishing an overall picture of this field of phenomena for the first time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783438
ISBN:: 9783110783438
ISBN:: 9783110783339
ISBN:: 9783110783476
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Subject:: Antiquity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2023

Estetica e poetica in Giovan Battista Gelli

Gli scritti sull’arte e su Dante

Carolina Pini, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Volume 2 in this series

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This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of sixteenth-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less studied aspects generally believed to be marginal in the context of his work. Not only was Gelli deeply interested in figurative art, attested in several works of his, he can also be considered one of the protagonists of the vivid sixteenth-century debates on Dante.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111080130
ISBN:: 9783111080130
ISBN:: 9783111080499
ISBN:: 9783111080055
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter