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Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably linked. Like the Aristotelian virtue of moderation, which requires the presence of excess and lack in order to exist, what Reeser terms "m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reeser, Todd W., 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, NC : North Carolina Studies in the Romance Lang. & Lit., ., 2006.
Colección:North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 283.
Temas:
1450-1600
Masculinity > History.
Masculinity in literature.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Masculinité > Histoire.
Masculinité dans la littérature.
Littérature européenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
European literature > Renaissance.
Masculinity.
Mannelijkheid.
Bellettrie.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Constructing Moderate Masculinity in the Renaissance
  • 1. Aiming for the Mean: the Binary and the Ternary in Aristotle
  • 2. Engendering a Moderate Class in Renaissance Pedagogical Discourse
  • 3. (Im)Moderate Husband in Marriage Discourse and in Rabelais's Tiers Livre
  • 4. Linguistic Other: Masculinity and the Disruption of the Sign in Rabelais's Quart Livre
  • 5. 'Une Ardeur Immodérée': Homosexuality and Moderate Male Friendship in Montaigne's 'De l'Amitié'
  • 6. Aristotle in the New World: Genered Analogy in Renaissance Travel Narratives
  • 7. Ruling the Hermaphrodites: Masculinity, Sovereignty, and National Identity in Political Discourse
  • Conclusion: Moderate Masculinity after the Renaissance.

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