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

Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

While 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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)637-661
JournalRenaissance Studies
Volume21
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Fingerprint

myth
narrative
human being
discourse
Sonnet
First Person
Poetics
Canzoniere
Discourse
Fiction
Sonnet Sequence
Reader
Fictionalization

Cite this

Kambaskovic-Sawers, Danijela. / 'Never was I the golden cloud': Ovidian myth, ambiguous speaker and the narrative in the sonnet sequences by Petrarch, Sidney and Spenser. In: Renaissance Studies. 2007 ; Vol. 21, No. 5. pp. 637-661.
@article{6ff8d105655547e8b856cbd27d79061f,
title = "'Never was I the golden cloud': Ovidian myth, ambiguous speaker and the narrative in the sonnet sequences by Petrarch, Sidney and Spenser",
abstract = "While 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.",
author = "Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00356.x",
language = "English",
volume = "21",
pages = "637--661",
journal = "Renaissance Studies",
issn = "0269-1213",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "5",

}

Kambaskovic-Sawers, D 2007, ''Never was I the golden cloud': Ovidian myth, ambiguous speaker and the narrative in the sonnet sequences by Petrarch, Sidney and Spenser' Renaissance Studies, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 637-661. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00356.x

'Never was I the golden cloud': Ovidian myth, ambiguous speaker and the narrative in the sonnet sequences by Petrarch, Sidney and Spenser. / Kambaskovic-Sawers, Danijela.

In: Renaissance Studies, Vol. 21, No. 5, 2007, p. 637-661.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

TY - JOUR

T1 - 'Never was I the golden cloud': Ovidian myth, ambiguous speaker and the narrative in the sonnet sequences by Petrarch, Sidney and Spenser

AU - Kambaskovic-Sawers, Danijela

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - While 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.

AB - While 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.

U2 - 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00356.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00356.x

M3 - Article

VL - 21

SP - 637

EP - 661

JO - Renaissance Studies

JF - Renaissance Studies

SN - 0269-1213

IS - 5

ER -

Kambaskovic-Sawers D. 'Never was I the golden cloud': Ovidian myth, ambiguous speaker and the narrative in the sonnet sequences by Petrarch, Sidney and Spenser. Renaissance Studies. 2007;21(5):637-661. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00356.x

Access to Document