Naslov
The Boar’s Teeth and the Fate of Desire

Autori
Lupić, Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni

Skup
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting

Mjesto i datum
Montréal, Kanada, 23.03.2011. - 26.03.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Desire ; early modern pastoral ; Theocritus ; Mavro Vetranović ; Shakespeare

Sažetak
“Had I been toothed like him [i.e. the boar], ” says Venus in Shakespeare’s 1593 narrative poem, “with kissing him I should have killed him first.” We learn from the rest of the poem that Adonis has been transformed into a flower and that Venus has gone to immure herself at Paphos, but we do not learn what happened to the boar, or indeed his teeth. The boar’s fate had, however, been the subject of a well-known idyll ascribed in the Renaissance to Theocritus and published as such in sixteenth-century England. This paper looks at an important crux in the original text of the idyll as well as at a sixteenth-century narrative poem by Mavro Vetranović in which the boar—and his hapless teeth—prominently feature. It is the boar’s teeth, I argue, that embody the conflicted conceptions of desire in the Renaissance.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost

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