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Urania
Giulia Bigolina
其他書名
A Romance
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2007-11-01
主題
Literary Criticism / General
ISBN
0226048799
9780226048796
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-rFzWzPnGY8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Presented for the first time in a critical English edition,
Urania: A Romance
provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation.
The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's
Urania
centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that would later become standards of the genre—cross-dressing, travel, epic skirmishes, and daring deeds—
Urania
also contains the earliest treatise on the worth of women.
Also included in this volume, the novella
Giulia Camposampiero
is the only extant part of a probable longer narrative written in the style of the
Decameron
. While employing some of those same gender and role reversals as
Urania
, including the privileging of heroic constancy in both men and women, it chronicles the tribulations that a couple undergoes until their secret marriage is publicly recognized.