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Author : Byung-Chul Lim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000094865114
Author : John Jeffries Martin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0333643089
The idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a new typology of Renaissance selfhood which was at once collective, performative and porous. At the same time, he stresses the layered qualities of the Renaissance self and the salient role of interiority and notions of inwardness in the shaping of identity.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131550357
Author : Joseph Leo Koerner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226449998
So foundational is this invention to modern aesthetics, Koerner argues, that interpreting it takes us to the limits of traditional art-historical method. Self-portraiture becomes legible less through a history leading up to it, or through a sum of contexts that occasion it, than through its historical sight-line to the present. After a thorough examination of Durer's startlingly new self-portraits, the author turns to the work of Baldung, Durer's most gifted pupil, and demonstrates how the apprentice willfully disfigured Durer's vision. Baldung replaced the master's self-portraits with some of the most obscene and bizarre pictures in the history of art. In images of nude witches, animated cadavers, and copulating horses, Baldung portrays the debased self of the viewer as the true subject of art. The Moment of Self-Portraiture thus unfolds as passages from teacher to student, artist to viewer, reception, all within a culture that at once deified and abhorred originality.
Author : Robert N. Watson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520325616
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Author : James R. Farr,Guido Ruggiero
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030824839
This volume historicizes the study of life-writing and egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet the individual as a purposive social actor provides significant common ground and offers a vehicle, both theoretical and practical, for a profitable synthesis of the two in a historical context. Echoing scholars from a wide-range of disciplines who recognize the uncertainty of the nature of the self, these essays question the notion of the autonomous self and the attendant idea of continuous identity unfolding in a unified personality. Instead, they suggest that the early modern self was variable and unstable, and can only be grasped by exploring selves situated in specific historical and social/cultural contexts and revealed through the wide range of historical documents considered here. The three sections of the volume consider: first, the theoretical contexts of understanding egodocuments in early modern Europe; then, the practical ways egodocuments from the period may be used for writing life-histories today; and finally, a wider range of historical documents that might be added to what are usually seen as egodocuments.
Author : Jonathan V. Crewe
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 0838752233
Dealing primarily with English and Italian Renaissance texts, and representing the work of emerging and established critics in the Renaissance field, this book reveals some of the polemical and methodological diversity of current Renaissance interpretation.
Author : Kevin Curran
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474448089
Explores the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance period Offers the first sustained study of the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance period Provides a study of personhood from a materialist perspective Models new way of entering posthumanist critique - animal studies, ecocriticism, and food studies - into conversation with legal theory, cultural history, and literary studies Unfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom. The book assembles an international team of leading scholars to formulate a new account of personhood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one that starts with the objects, environments and physical processes that made personhood legible.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Historians
ISBN : WISC:89082391251
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Historians
ISBN : UOM:39015062078673
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226306593
Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare—and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Now a classic text in literary studies, Renaissance Self-Fashioning continues to be of interest to students of the Renaissance, English literature, and the new historicist tradition, and this new edition includes a preface by the author on the book's creation and influence. "No one who has read [Greenblatt's] accounts of More, Tyndale, Wyatt, and others can fail to be moved, as well as enlightened, by an interpretive mode which is as humane and sympathetic as it is analytical. These portraits are poignantly, subtly, and minutely rendered in a beautifully lucid prose alive in every sentence to the ambivalences and complexities of its subjects."—Harry Berger Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz
Author : Robert E. Abrams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521830648
In this provocative and original study, Robert E. Abrams argues that in mid-nineteenth-century American writing, new concepts of space and landscape emerge. Abrams explores the underlying frailty of a sense of place in American literature of this period. Sense of place, Abrams proposes, is culturally constructed. It is perceived through the lens of maps, ideas of nature, styles of painting, and other cultural frameworks that can contradict one another or change dramatically over time. Abrams contends that mid-century American writers ranging from Henry D. Thoreau to Margaret Fuller are especially sensitive to instability of sense of place across the span of American history, and that they are ultimately haunted by an underlying placelessness. Many books have explored the variety of aesthetic conventions and ideas that have influenced the American imagination of landscape, but this study introduces the idea of placeless into the discussion, and suggests that it has far-reaching consequences.
Author : R.J.W. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351946667
'Curiosity' and 'wonder' are topics of increasing interest and importance to Renaissance and Enlightenment historians. Conspicuous in a host of disciplines from history of science and technology to history of art, literature, and society, both have assumed a prominent place in studies of the Early Modern period. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to investigate the various manifestations of, and relationships between, 'curiosity' and 'wonder' from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Focused case studies on texts, objects and individuals explore the multifaceted natures of these themes, highlighting the intense fascination and continuing scrutiny to which each has been subjected over three centuries. From instances of curiosity in New World exploration to the natural wonders of 18th-century Italy, Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment locates its subjects in a broad geographical and disciplinary terrain. Taken together, the essays presented here construct a detailed picture of two complex themes, demonstrating the extent to which both have been transformed and reconstituted, often with dramatic results.
Author : Debora K. Shuger,Renaissance Society of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802080472
By examining orthodox methods of thought in the Renaissance, the author tries to reconstruct a picture of the dominant culture of the period in England between 1580 and 1630.
Author : Claire McEachern,Debora Shuger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521584256
These essays by leading historians and literary scholars investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social and literary forms, and their reciprocal role in shaping early modern religion, from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. Reflecting and rethinking the insights of new historicism and cultural studies, individual essays take up various aspects of the productive, if tense, relation between Tudor-Stuart Christianity and culture, and explore how religion informs some of the central texts of English Renaissance literature: the vernacular Bible, Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Hooker's Laws, Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, the poems of John Donne, Amelia Lanyer and John Milton. The collection demonstrates the centrality of religion to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and its influence on early modern constructions of gender, subjectivity and nationhood.