This dissertation provides an essential link between postmodernism and Early Modern studies. Detailed readings of the sonnets of Petrarch, Labe, and Ronsard re-evaluate imitatio as a process of repetition compulsion. Each author stands doubly removed in this discussion, once from the beloved, whom each addresses in the sonnet, and once from the original source of imitation. Lack thus supplies imitatio this impetus as it serves as both performance and subject in the sonnets of each author.

Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labé (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labé played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, Complete Poetry and Prose also features the only translations of Labé's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Labé's elegies in their entirety.

A reference guide to various forms of poetry with entries arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry defines the form and gives its history, examples, and suggestions for usage.

A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.