The Poetics of License in Janus Secundus's Basia
Janus Secundus's Basia, one of the most important cycles of Renaissance Latin lyric, have long been admired for their levity, ironies and, above all, technical virtuosity. But in the Basia, Secundus also demonstrates a poetics that, though derivative in the extreme, asserts freedom from convent...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1992
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1992, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 289-301 |
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| Summary: | Janus Secundus's Basia, one of the most important cycles of Renaissance Latin lyric, have long been admired for their levity, ironies and, above all, technical virtuosity. But in the Basia, Secundus also demonstrates a poetics that, though derivative in the extreme, asserts freedom from conventionality, in particular freedom from the constraints of a moralistic code. Secundus not only flaunts a poetics of transgression (the principal elements of which are obscenity, invective, and vivid descriptions of sexual desire), but also portrays and mocks audiences offended by his style. Nonetheless, while his poetics of transgression informs what one might wish to see as a progressive literary aesthetic, its occasional harshness, especially its accommodation of violence against the female lover, should not be overlooked. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2541891 |
