@article{1445296,
      recid = {1445296},
      author = {Bondi, Fabrizio, and Stella, Massimo, and Torre, Andrea,},
      title = {The wounded body : memory, language and the self from  Petrarch to Shakespeare /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This edited collection explores the image of the wound as  a cultural symptom and a literary-visual trope at the core  of representations of a new concept of selfhood in Early  Modern Italian and English cultures, as expressed in the  two complementary poles of poetry and theatre. The semantic  field of the wounded body concerns both the image of the  wound as a traumatic event, which leaves a mark on someones  body and soul (and prompts one to investigate its causes  and potential solutions), and the motif of the scar, which  draws attention to the fact that time has passed and urges  those who look at it to engage in an introspective and  analytical process. By studying and describing the  transmission of this metaphoric paradigm through the  literary tradition, the contributors show how the image of  the bodily woundfrom Petrarchs representation of the Self  to the overt crisis that affects the heroes and the poetic  worlds created by Ariosto and Tasso, Spenser and  Shakespearecould respond to the emergence of Modernity as a  new cultural feature.. Fabrizio Bondi is Fellow of Italian  Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy.  Massimo Stella is Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and  Theory of Literature at the Ca Foscari University of  Venice, Italy. Andrea Torre is Associate Professor of  Italian Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa,  Italy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1445296},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91904-7},
}