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Dancing around the well : the circulation of commonplaces in Renaissance humanism /
This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a process...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
232. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a process of reanimation and revitalization, where frozen sayings thaw out and come to life, or conversely as a process of immobilization and incrustation that petrifies tradition. The paradigmatic figure for this process is the proverbial dance around the well, which expresses both the danger and the compulsion of borrowed speech. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (171 pages .) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9004277153 9789004277151 |
| ISSN: | 0920-8607 ; |