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European literary careers : the author from antiquity to the Renaissance /

In this first book-length study in the fieldof authorial criticism, various specialists from Italian, French, English, and Spanish studies collectively discuss literary careers spanning from classical antiquity through the Renaissance.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cheney, Patrick, 1949- (Editor ), De Armas, Frederick A., 1945- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: 'Jog on, jog on", European career paths / Patrick Cheney
  • Greek lives and Roman careers in the classical Vita tradition / Joseph Farrell
  • From Cursus to Ductus: figures of writing in western late antiquity (Augustine, Jerome, Cassiodorus, Bede) / Mark Vessey
  • Medieval literary careers: the Theban track / Robert R. Edwards
  • Authority and influence
  • vocation and anxiety: the sense of a literary career in the sentimental novel and Celestina / James F. Burke
  • Versions of a career: Petrarch and his Renaissance commentators / William J. Kennedy
  • Judging a literary career: the case of Antonio de Guevara (1480?-1545) / Kathleen Bollard de Broce
  • Arms versus letters: the poetics of war and the career of the poet in early modern Spain / Anne J. Cruz
  • Divine poetry as a career move: the complexities and consolations of following David / Anne Lake Prescott
  • 'Novells of his devise': Chaucerian and Virgilian career paths in Spenser's Februarie eclogue / Patrick Cheney
  • Cervantes and the Virgilian wheel: the portrayal of a literary career / Frederick A. de Armas
  • Epic violence: captives, Moriscos, and empire in Cervantes / Álvaro Molina
  • Renaissance Englishwomen and the literary career / Susanne Woods [and others].