Genre and Geography in Ludovico Ariosto's<i>Orlando</i><i>Furioso</i>
Jo Ann Cavallo
This chapter examines Ariosto's Orlando Furioso in its literary and historical context, principally relation to the medieval chivalric tradition Boiardo's Innamorato , poem Ariosto explicitly sets out continue. Paying special attention genre geography, it focuses particular on interplay between features of Carolingian epic Arthurian Romance as well depiction characters places, both imaginary actual, that represent world outside Christian Europe. contextual analysis thus aims address some perennial issues inherent genre: Does – whose declared subject matter is love war validate interpersonal relations across cultural geographical boundaries or does demonize ethnic religious other by fashioning collective identities constant conflict? What are considered be legitimate uses violence within 's fictional universe contemporary world?
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