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Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of Orlando Furioso
By (Author) Daniel Javitch
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
851.3
Paperback
216
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
28g
Despite its immediate popularity and its acclaim as a modern equal of the ancient epics, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (published in its final version in 1532) was for learned readers a perplexing work: it mixed romance, epic, and lyric poetry, poked fun at its marvelous and outmoded chivalric matter, contained many interrupted narrative threads, and i