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'Never was I the golden cloud': Ovidian myth, ambiguous speaker and the narrative in the sonnet sequences by Petrarch, Sidney and Spenser

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dc.contributor.authorKambaskovic-Sawyers, Danijela
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:44:50Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.updated2015-12-08T10:48:09Z
dc.description.abstractWhile the sonnets of the Petrarchan discourse receive continuous critical attention, mechanisms used to bind sonnet sequences into integrated works of fiction remain unexamined. This essay looks at the way Petrarch, Sidney and Spenser employ refracted Ovidian myth to create ambiguous first-person speakers for Il Canzoniere, Astrophil and Stella and Amoretti, in order to suggest that the sonneteers used shifting self-fictionalization and poetics of subtextual ambiguity to foster reader involvement and perception of the sequence as an integral work, a concern which betrays the presence of novelistic thinking.
dc.identifier.issn0269-1213
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/37572
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.sourceRenaissance Studies
dc.subjectKeywords: Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca; Poetry; Renaissance literature; Sidney, Philip; Spenser, Edmund
dc.title'Never was I the golden cloud': Ovidian myth, ambiguous speaker and the narrative in the sonnet sequences by Petrarch, Sidney and Spenser
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue5
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage661
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage637
local.contributor.affiliationKambaskovic-Sawyers, Danijela, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidKambaskovic-Sawyers, Danijela, u4563553
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor200503 - British and Irish Literature
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9313329xPUB150
local.identifier.citationvolume21
local.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00356.x
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-51249151862
local.type.statusPublished Version

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