TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gragnolati, Manuele
A1  - Southerden, Francesca
T1  - Openness and intensity : Petrarch's becoming laurel in "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta" 23 and 228
T2  - Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23
N2  - Our paper offers a comparative reading of Rvf 23 and 228, which describe the poetic subject's transformation into (23), or implantation with (228), the laurel tree that normally represents the poet's beloved, Laura. Bringing Petrarch's poems into dialogue with philosophical works that consider the nature of plant existence as a form of interconnectedness and porosity to the outside, we argue that the becoming tree these poems stage is a form of desire to be understood not as lack but as intensity.
KW  - Petrarca, Francesco
KW  - Canzoniere
KW  - Lorbeer
KW  - Pflanzen <Motiv>
KW  - Metamorphose
KW  - Plants
KW  - Metamorphosis
KW  - Hybridity
KW  - Desire
KW  - Intensity
KW  - Pleasure
KW  - Liebe <Motiv>
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68710
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687108
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/gragnolati-southerden_openness-and-intensity.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-029-9
SN  - 978-3-96558-030-5
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 210
EP  - 224
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -