Journal article
Diogo Bernardes's brandura
- Abstract:
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Readers of Diogo Bernardes’s (c.1530-c. 1595) poetry have long praised the brandura (gentleness) of his work. But what brandura meant and how positively this quality was viewed shifted depending on the context of discussion. Brandura was associated with the middle style, mastery of elocutio, and, by extension, with poetry’s ability to move those who listened to or read it. Because of this, brandura could, at one moment, provoke moral anxiety, and at another, could signal the height of poetic ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Duke University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History Journal website
- Volume:
- 78
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 465-489
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-25
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1527-1943
- ISSN:
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0026-7929
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pubs:687548
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- Local pid:
- pubs:687548
- Source identifiers:
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687548
- Deposit date:
- 2017-03-30
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- © 2017 by University of Washington
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Duke University Press at: 10.1215/00267929-4198231
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