Isbn: 9780802029560 - guise and disguise: rhetoric and characterization in the english renaissance (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780802029560. …

Zustand: Sehr gut. 217 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Very good and clean. - Disguise is a recurring figure in many Renaissance texts. In its apparent intention to deceive, it raises complex issues of identity, motivation, and the construction of character. Lloyd Daviss Guise and Disguise examines disguise as a rhetorical and dramatistic motif in a wide range of Renaissance texts. Drawing on the sociological analyses of character in the work of Goffmann and Garfinkel as well as on recent historicist studies of Renaissance literature, Davis argues against an essentialist notion of identity. He posits a counter-tradition of character as invented, shaped guise, a cultural process realized through rhetorical and dramatic performance. Davis traces the conflict between idealist and cultural notions of selfhood from its classical roots to its role as a key social concern in the English Renaissance. He analyses rhetorical texts from Wilson, Rainolds, Puttenham, and Sidney; the political and social philosophies of Machiavelli, Castiglione, Montaigne, Bacon, and Hobbes; the religious writings of Erasmus, Calvin, and Donne; and the dramatic works of Lyly, Shakespeare, Marston, Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher. He sees issues of selfhood and identity as central to the periods ideological and gender discourses, and strategies of disguise and character-making as challenging the political and sexual motives that underlie images of the essentialist self. Daviss approach links Renaissance culture both to its past and to modern and post-modern notions of subjectivity and language. ISBN 9780802029560 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 477 Original Cloth with Dustjacket.…