Openness and intensity : Petrarch's becoming laurel in "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta" 23 and 228
- 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.
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| Author: | Manuele GragnolatiORCiDGND, Francesca SoutherdenORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687108 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/gragnolati-southerden_openness-and-intensity.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_11 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-029-9 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-030-5 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/06/27 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/07/06 |
| Tag: | Desire; Hybridity; Intensity; Metamorphosis; Plants; Pleasure |
| GND Keyword: | Petrarca, Francesco; Canzoniere; Lorbeer; Pflanzen <Motiv>; Metamorphose; Liebe <Motiv> |
| Page Number: | 16 |
| First Page: | 210 |
| Last Page: | 224 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 497201275 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| 8 Literatur / 85 Italienische, rumänische, rätoromanische Literaturen / 850 Italienische, rumänische, rätoromanische Literaturen | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
