Kate De Rycker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3043191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate De Rycker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | De Rycker |
| SIGNATURE | DE RYCKER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2961-1185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Staging the Imagined City
This article explores the theme of ‘cityscapes’, and Aretino as a writer of the urban experience, by focussing on the city as an unknowable and anonymous space, especially to social outsiders. It will first examine how Aretino portrays Rome in his early comedy Cortigiana (1525) as a confusing and socially stratified space when experienced from its peripheries. A key factor in achieving this is in his mapping of the imagined spaces of the city (th…
The political function of Elizabethan literary celebrity
Anachronistic as the idea of ‘celebrity’ in the late sixteenth century may seem, what this brief study hopes to show is how one Elizabethan phenomenon, the Martin Marprelate Controversy, relied on
Formal Matters
Translating the Ragionamento
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) was one of the first Italian writers to make a living from the printing press and had built his fame during his lifetime to such an extent that he had become notorious across Europe as the ‘scourge of princes’. In the century after his death, however, Aretino's reputation as a controversial figure changed until, like Machiavelli, his name had became synonymous with Italian vice in the minds of foreign readers. This arti…
The Immaterial Book
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The Immaterial Book
Formal Matters
Translating the Ragionamento
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) was one of the first Italian writers to make a living from the printing press and had built his fame during his lifetime to such an extent that he had become notorious across Europe as the ‘scourge of princes’. In the century after his death, however, Aretino's reputation as a controversial figure changed until, like Machiavelli, his name had became synonymous with Italian vice in the minds of foreign readers. This arti…
The political function of Elizabethan literary celebrity
Anachronistic as the idea of ‘celebrity’ in the late sixteenth century may seem, what this brief study hopes to show is how one Elizabethan phenomenon, the Martin Marprelate Controversy, relied on
Staging the Imagined City
This article explores the theme of ‘cityscapes’, and Aretino as a writer of the urban experience, by focussing on the city as an unknowable and anonymous space, especially to social outsiders. It will first examine how Aretino portrays Rome in his early comedy Cortigiana (1525) as a confusing and socially stratified space when experienced from its peripheries. A key factor in achieving this is in his mapping of the imagined spaces of the city (th…
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