Framing Authority : Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England
Writers in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered during reading or conversation, but few critics have fully appreciated the formative influence this activity had on humanism. Focusing on the discursive practices of ""gathe...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Summary: | Writers in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered during reading or conversation, but few critics have fully appreciated the formative influence this activity had on humanism. Focusing on the discursive practices of ""gathering"" textual fragments and ""framing"" or forming, arranging, and assimilating them, Mary Crane shows how keeping commonplace books made up the English humanists' central transaction with antiquity and provided an influential model for authorial practice and authoritative self-fashioning. She thereby rev |
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Item Description: | Cover; Contents. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781400863310 |