...Daniel Javitch © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Daniel Javitch is professor of comparative literature at New York University. He is author of Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of“Orlando Furioso” (1991). A collection of essays on Ariosto's poem is in progress. The Poetics...

...Daniel Javitch This essay challenges the view that the last part of Orlando furioso takes an “epic” turn and abandons many of the “romance” features that characterize its first half. The essay does so by considering (1) the anachronism of projecting onto the Furioso a desire on Ariosto's part...

...John W. Draper Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 SHAKESPEARE’S ORLANDO INNAMORATO By JOHN W. DRAPER Shakespeare’s Orlando indeed is Fortune’s minion: in Act I, he starts as an outcast younger brother,l with no hope of support either...

...David Quint Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 David Quint is professor of English and comparative literature at Yale University. His forthcoming book is Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy . Narrative Interlace and Narrative Genres in Don Quijote and the Orlando...

... surplus (within which information has no a priori value). Three examples are analyzed in depth: the heroscopía from book 6 of Virgil's Aeneid , in which Roman history is portrayed as a triumphal procession; Astolfo's voyage to the moon in canto 34 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso , with its inventory...

... and Orlando. For Wilson, the comedy reveals a “constant play between the objectivity of time (as the correlative of motion) and its relativity (as the correlative of a knowing mind) .” Wilson, writes Donn Taylor, “holds that the chief characters’ perception of the objective, threatening time of Freder...

...Ralph A. Haug Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 MILTON AND SIR JOHN HARINGTON By RALPHA. HAUC That in 1641-2 Milton was reading Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso in Sir John Harington’s translation (the 1591 edition) we know because he...

... i tous enviz et toutes restes, deux mois aprds le trespas de leurs mariz (I, 3). Pulci will offer instead the quiet comment, the barbed dart. Rinaldo is to fight with the virgin warrior Antea, but instead lies a-bed wailing that he is in love with her. Orlando reasons with him in vain...

... journalistic survey of the historical novel reasserts that “no aesthetic timespan is ever homogeneous,” questions Jameson’s failure to recognize Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography as a modernist historical novel. Anderson describes Orlando , “whose metamorphoses of time and gender, breaking with every...

... and then dismisses it, and the reader, abruptly. The best critical chapters are those on Boiardo and Tasso. From Orlando innamorato Murrin selects one dream, Orlando’s adventures in Falerina’s garden, and offers to discuss it “exhaustively” (p. 55). Although such a selec- tive approach is understandable...

... the publication of Boiardo’s Orlando innainorato in 1487 (partial), 1495, and again in 1506 that brought the questione dellu lingua to the fore. Here was a great poem written in a language which purported to be Italian, but reeked of Lombardy and Emilia ! The cultural leadership of Tuscany and Florence...

.... Jodogne in Let. Rom., IX (1955)) 339-341. 3935. Caretti, Lanfranco (ed.) . Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto. (La Letteratura italiana; storia e testi, Vol. 19.) Milano- Napoli : Ricciardi, 1954. 1248 pp. Rev. (together with Opere Minori, a cura di Cesare Segre) in LTLS, March 18...

..., to a desirable chastening of stylistic fecundity, as in Orlando ’s representation of the nineteenth century. Still, Orlando does give birth in what Matz terms “a concentrated formulation of a basic procreative ambivalence” (113). In Lawrence, a theme of fecundity coexists with passages like the one from...

.... “Orlando agus Melora.” Bkaloideas, XVI, 1946 (1948), 3-48. 2960. Dubois, Marguerite Marie (editor). Le Roman d’Arthur et des chevaliers de la Table Ronde. [ Malory.] Extraits choisis. Intro- duction, traduction et notes. (Coll. Bilingue Anglaise.) Paris : F. Aubier, 1948. 2961. Dufourt...

...- versity of New Mexico Press, 1977), 175–84. MLQ 61.2-04Weinbrot.ak 5/26/00 3:52 PM Page 400 400 MLQ ❙ June 2000 mic affiliation and upon presenting Orlando Furioso to his college called...

... unredeemed. Fictions of Obsolescence Nineteenth-century European novels, in general, display a marked fascination with obsolescence. As Francesco Orlando demonstrates in his massive work Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination, they crowd their pages with worn-out objects or, as his subtitle...

... of anonymity is inflated to “constitute the basis of Woolf‘s poetic attitude” (p. 20). Attributes of the novels, interesting in themselves, are made a single “source” of the novel’s effect (p. 33). The comedy of Orlando is turned to “play” in order that it may be decorated by a number of psychological...

... the transatlantic secrets of the Middle Passage? Refusing to accept the social death of the slaves as a given, as Orlando Patterson ( 1982 ) asserted many years ago, Gikandi shows the productivity of slavery as a condition structurally present to the texts and artifacts of high culture. Paradoxically, both slavery...

...- lated by James A. Walker. (Texts include sel. from Lawman, Gawain a,nd the Green Knight, Allit. Morte Arthur.) Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1952. 3534a. Multineddu, Salvatore (ed.) . Ariosto, Orlando Furioso. Bo- logna : Zanichelli, 1952. 3535. [Natrovissus.] “Le mythe...

... writer can seldom be taken as absolute truth, a writer’s silence may be eloquent. The dialectic between A Room of One? Own and Orlando, which were written close together, centers on Woolf’s uses of the Romantic period. In A Room of One’s Own Woolf invokes Coleridge as the seminal genius...