Imagining Culture - Essays in Early Modern History and Literature

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Imagining Culture: Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern Europe, Jonathan Hart * History, Fiction, and the Human Sciences : History and Anthropology, and the History of Anthropology: Considerations on a Methodological Practice, Anthony Pagden * The emergency of the Paradoxical Self, Eva Kushner * Sperone Speroni and the Labyrinthine Discourse of Renaissance Dialogue, Olga Zorzi Pugliese * Strategies of Promotion: Some Prefatory Matter of Oviedo, Thevet, and Hakluyt, Jonathan Hart * Gender and Representation : My Honour I'll Bequeath unto the Knife: Public Heroism, Private Sacrifice, and Early Modern Rapes of Lucrece, Mercedes Maroto Camino * Pour une po tique de la nouvelle, Gis le Mathieu-Castellani * Speaking Politically Correct in the Feminine Voice: Examples from the Decameron and the Heptam ron, Sylvie L.F. RichardsEarly Modernity/Modernity/Postmodernity Cervantes et Tirso face aux performatifs: Don Quichotte et Don Juan, Antonio G-mez-MorianaConcerning Ariosto's Modernity: Alcina's Case, M ssimo Verdicchio * Challenging the Order of the Sun in G-ngora's Soledades, Rachel SchmidtShowing and Telling: An Essay on Narrative Theory and Renaissance Drama, Elizabeth M. Richmond-GarzaBibliography

About the author

Jonathan Hart

Product details

• Assisted by: Jonathan Hart (Editor), Hart Jonathan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1996
• EAN: 9780815323976
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2397-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Essays, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, HISTORY / Essays, General & world history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary essays, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599