Corrado Confalonieri, "Torquato Tasso and the Desire for Unity: 'Jerusalem Delivered' and a New Theory of the Epic" (Carocci editore, 2022)
New Books in Literary Studies
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The Liberata: A Poem of Ambiguity
I love the emphasis throughout your multiple-course readings on this question of of privilege in perspective and among the different favorite characters that you trace in the poem are sofroni and elinda, elindo, tan creiadie, arimida and rinaldo. As I was reading that part of the book it brought me back to this question about ambiguity and this characteristic in the poem that emerges arguably more through a practice of reading than through writing precisely in how you frame it as this tension in perspectives ambiguous surfaces through a reader's experience of a poem. So given this this sort of special privilege that tasso gives his readers into elements of a character's development that are denied
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