{"product_id":"the-ugly-woman-transgressive-aesthetic-models-in-italian-poetry-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-baroque-paperback","title":"The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrizia Bettella\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ugly woman is a surprisingly common figure in Italian poetry, one that has been frequently appropriated by male poetic imagination to depict moral, aesthetic, social, and racial boundaries. Mostly used between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries - from the invectives of Rustico Filippi, Franco Sacchetti, and Burchiello, to the paradoxical praises of Francesco Berni, Niccol? Campani and Pietro Aretino, and further to the conceited encomia of Giambattista Marino and Marinisti - the portrayal of female unattractiveness was, argues Patrizia Bettella in \u003ci\u003eThe Ugly Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, one way of figuring woman as 'other.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBettella shows how medieval female ugliness included transgressive types ranging from the lustful old hag, to the slanderer, the wild woman, the heretic\/witch, and the prostitute, whereas Early Modern unattractiveness targeted peasants, mountain dwellers, and black slaves: marginal women whose bodies and manners subvert aesthetic precepts of culturally normative beauty and propriety. Taking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression, \u003ci\u003e The Ugly Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrizia Bettella\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42386131681415,"sku":"9781487541941","price":59.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/32c40cd78affc38538cbe0c86cb36be7.webp?v=1740816141","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-ugly-woman-transgressive-aesthetic-models-in-italian-poetry-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-baroque-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}