Isbn: 9780521034876 - perform nobility early mod euro lit (cambridge studies in renaissance literature & culture, 33, band 33) (4 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. This book illuminates the idea of display and performance in Renaissance noble life and literature. Series Editor(s): Orgel, Stephen; Barton, Anne; Dollimore, Jonathan; Garber, Marjorie; Goldberg, Jonathan; Vickers, Nancy; Holland, Peter; McLuskie, Kathleen. Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430. . 2008. Revised ed. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courtesy manuals, through Montaigne and Bacon, to the literature of the Grand Siècle, David Posner examines the structures of public identity in the period. He focuses on the developing tensions between, on the one hand, literary or imaginative representations of 'nobility' and, on the other, the increasingly problematic historical position of the nobility themselves. These tensions produce a transformation in the notion of the noble self as a performance, and eventually doom court society and its theatrical mode of self-presentation. Situated at the intersection of rhetorical and historical theories of interpretation, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of the role of literature both in analysing and in shaping social identity.…