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Exile and Petrarch’s Reinvention of Authorship
- Author(s):
- Laurence Hooper (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Subject(s):
- Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Literature and society
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Augustine, Franciscans, law and literature, narrative, poetry, Early modern studies, Literary theory, Medieval literature, Sociology of literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6V04D
- Abstract:
- This article demonstrates a systematic connection between the novelty of Petrarch’s authorship and his self-definition as an exile. Petrarch employs the unusual term exilium/esilio to substantiate his unprecedented claim that literature is a legally valid officium (civic role). Following Dante, Petrarch grounds his exilic authorship in the Christian discourse of peregrinatio: life as pilgrimage through exile. But Petrarch’s new officium allows him a measure of control over literary creation that no prior Italian writer had enjoyed. This is especially true of the “Canzoniere,” Petrarch’s compilation of his vernacular lyrics, whose singularity functions as a proxy for its author’s selfhood.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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