Self-commentary in early modern European literature, 1400-1700

This volume investigates the various ways in which writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves, across early modern Europe. A multiplicity of self-commenting modes, ranging from annotations to explicatory prose to prefaces to separate critical texts and e...

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Weitere Verfasser: Venturi, Francesco (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Leiden, Bosten Brill 2019
Schriftenreihe:Intersections Volume 62
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Zusammenfassung:This volume investigates the various ways in which writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves, across early modern Europe. A multiplicity of self-commenting modes, ranging from annotations to explicatory prose to prefaces to separate critical texts and exemplifying a variety of literary genres, are subjected to analysis. Self-commentaries are more than just an external apparatus: they direct and control reception of the primary text, thus affecting notions of authorship and readership. With the writer understood as a potentially very influential and often tendentious interpreter of their own work, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on pre-modern and modern forms of critical self-consciousness, self-representation, and self-validation.Contributors are Harriet Archer, Gilles Bertheau, Carlo Caruso, Jeroen De Keyser, Russell Ganim, Joseph Harris, Ian Johnson, Richard Maber, Martin McLaughlin, John O’Brien, Magdalena Ożarska, Federica Pich, Brian Richardson, Els Stronks, and Colin Thompson.
Beschreibung:This voume had its origins in a conference with the same title held at Durham University in February 2016, under the aegis of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Beschreibung:XIV, 431 Seiten
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ISBN:9004346864
90-04-34686-4
9789004346864
978-90-04-34686-4