anti-Petrarchism
anti-Petrarchism noun: a rhetorical style that deliberately rejected, parodied, or grotesquely inverted Petrarchan conventions.
Noun
anti-Petrarchism (uncountable)
- A rhetorical style that deliberately rejected, parodied, or grotesquely inverted Petrarchan conventions.
- There is rather little of the kind of anti-Petrarchism found in the burlesque poems of Burchiello (1404-48), Berni (1498-1535) and Aretino (1492-1556).2009, John Donne, Theodore Redpath, The Songs and Sonets of John Donne, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 49
Origin of anti-Petrarchism
From anti- + Petrarchism.
Questions about anti-Petrarchism
- What does anti-Petrarchism mean?
- Anti-Petrarchism means a rhetorical style that deliberately rejected, parodied, or grotesquely inverted Petrarchan conventions.
- What part of speech is anti-Petrarchism?
- Anti-Petrarchism is a noun.
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