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Poetry and Censorship in Counter-Reformation Italy
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English
Published/Copyright:
2015
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In Poetry and Censorship Jennifer Helm offers insight into motives and strategies of Counter-Reformation censorship of poetry in Italy. Materials of Roman censorial authorities reveal why the control of poetry and of its reception was crucial to Counter-Reformation cultural politics.
Censorship of poetry should enable the church to influence human inner life that ---from thought and belief to fantasy and feeling--- was evolving considerably at that time. The control of poetic genres and modes of writing played an important part here. Yet, to what extent censorship could affect poetic creation emerges from a manuscript of the Venetian poet Domenico Venier. The materials suggest the impact of Counter-Reformation censorship on poetry began earlier and was more extensive than has yet been propagated.
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Jennifer Helm, Ph.D. (2010), Göttingen University, Germany, is lecturer in Romance Literary Studies at the same university. She has published articles on Catholic censorship of literary works.
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eBook published on:
August 25, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9789004301115
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Main content:
438
eBook ISBN:
9789004301115
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in the history of ecclesiastical censorship and poetry, and anyone concerned with the Counter-Reformation and related themes.
