Fantastic Placeness: Fukushi Kōjirō’s Regionalism and the Vernacular Poetry of Takagi Kyōzō

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Joshua Lee Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Vernacular Poetry

scholarly journals A Classical Source for Petrarch’s Conceit of the Binding Knot of Hair: Apuleius’s Metamorphoses

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Caporicci
Keyword(s):  
Classical Source ◽  
Renaissance Poetry ◽  
Vernacular Poetry ◽  
Love Lyric

AbstractThe conceit of the beloved’s hair ensnaring and binding the poet’s heart and soul is common in Renaissance poetry and particularly widespread in the tradition of Petrarchan love lyric. The topos can be traced back to Petrarch’s canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, in which Laura’s golden hair is often described in terms of knots and laces tying both the poet’s heart and soul. No classical antecedent has previously been identified for the image. In this study, I propose a possible classical source for the characteristic Petrarchan motif of Laura’s binding hair knot: Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, a manuscript of which the poet owned and which he read and annotated several times. In particular, I show how passages such as Lucius’s celebration of the beauty of women’s hair (Metamorphoses, II.8–9), and especially his declaration of love to Photis, an oath he takes on ʻthat sweet knot of your hair with which you have bound my spiritʼ (ibid., III.23), can be convincingly regarded as a source for Petrarch’s conceit. In addition to the value inherent in the detection of a new source for an influential Petrarchan topos, the present study may have some further implications. It could offer novel arguments for the dating of a series of Petrarchan poems, and it could foster a potentially fruitful reappraisal of the influence of Apuleius’s work on Petrarch’s vernacular poetry.

Humanism and the Invention of Homophony

2020 ◽  
pp. 203-248
Author(s):  
Megan Kaes Long
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Rote Learning ◽  
Text Setting ◽  
Broad View ◽  
Philosophical Movement ◽  
Vernacular Poetry ◽  
Listening Strategies

This chapter takes a broad view of sixteenth-century homophonic genres to argue that homophony is a potent solution for several aesthetic problems motivated by the demands of humanism. The frottola reflects the transformation of an improvised tradition into a literate one: composers designed flexible musical frameworks that accommodated varied courtly poems but that sacrificed musical trajectories for poetic ones. Midcentury musique mesurée arose from a philosophical movement rather than a musical one; its rhythmic experimentation interacts in elegant ways with its harmonic trajectories. The Lutheran cantional brings homophony to the sacred realm; the demands of rote learning and the character of borrowed melodies overrode the development of a metrically motivated text-setting schemes. Though these repertoires set texts in three languages and span one hundred years, they share an interest in vernacular poetry and text comprehensibility. And they encourage the same kinds of listening strategies manifested in the balletto repertoire.

Vernacular Poetry

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Nahid Pirnazar
Keyword(s):  
Vernacular Poetry

scholarly journals Possibilities of Lyric

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuele Gragnolati ◽  
Francesca Southerden
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Vernacular Poetry ◽  
Guido Cavalcanti

Opening to passion as an unsettling, transformative force; extending desire to the text, expanding the self, and dissolving its boundaries; imagining pleasures outside the norm and intensifying them; overcoming loss and reaching beyond death; being loyal to oneself and defying productivity, resolution, and cohesion while embracing paradox, non-linearity, incompletion. These are some of the possibilities of lyric that this book explores by reading Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in dialogue with that of other poets, including Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, and Shakespeare. In the Epilogue, the poet Antonella Anedda Angioy engages with Ossip Mandel’štam and Paul Celan’s dialogue with Petrarch and extends it into the present.

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