TY - JOUR
T1 - Troubled Ascent Toward Perfection
T2 - The Amor and Psyche Myth in Giovan Battista Marino's Adone IV
AU - Kluge, Sofie
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The article demonstrates how the 4th canto of Giovan Battista Marino’s Adone (1623) reflects the perennial, but recently augmented antagonism between moral concerns and aesthetic interests. It is argued, that this quintessential Counter-Reformation issue is discernible in the “Novelletta” canto’s ambiguous concern with the increasing amount of material obstacles perceived on the way to spiritual excellence, observable on different textual levels: in the thematic occupation with the notions of trial and discipline, in the excursive structure and ambiguous rhetoric, and in the use of stylistic devices, which obstruct the reading and interpretation of the text.
AB - The article demonstrates how the 4th canto of Giovan Battista Marino’s Adone (1623) reflects the perennial, but recently augmented antagonism between moral concerns and aesthetic interests. It is argued, that this quintessential Counter-Reformation issue is discernible in the “Novelletta” canto’s ambiguous concern with the increasing amount of material obstacles perceived on the way to spiritual excellence, observable on different textual levels: in the thematic occupation with the notions of trial and discipline, in the excursive structure and ambiguous rhetoric, and in the use of stylistic devices, which obstruct the reading and interpretation of the text.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Giovan Battista Marino
U2 - 10.1353/mln.2013.0010
DO - 10.1353/mln.2013.0010
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0026-7910
VL - 128
SP - 103
EP - 123
JO - MLN - Modern Language Notes
JF - MLN - Modern Language Notes
IS - 1
ER -