Imagining Culture: Essays in Early Modern History and Literature. Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies ; 1.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Pencil annotation on endpaper, otherwise very good and clean. With dedication from author to Jan Ziolkowski (1956-, Professor for Medieval Latin at Harvard). / Bleistiftanmerkung auf Vorsatzblatt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. Mit Verfasserwidmung an Jan Ziolkowski (1956-, Professor f�r Mittelalterliches Latein in Harvard). - CONTENTS: Imagining Culture: Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern Europe (Jonathan Hart) -- 1. History, Fiction, and the Human Sciences -- History and Anthropology, and the History of Anthropology: Considerations on a Methodological Practice (Anthony Pagden) -- The Emergence 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) -- 2. 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�que de la nouvelle (Gisele Mathieu-Castellani) -- Speaking Politically Correct in the Feminine Voice: Examples from the Decameron and the Heptameron (Sylvie L.F. Richards) -- 3. Early Modernity/Modemity/Postmodernity -- Cervantes et Tirso face aux performatifs: Don Quichotte et Don Juan (Antonio Gomez-Moriana) -- Concerning Ariosto�s Modernity: Alcina�s Case (Massimo Verdicchio) -- Challenging the Order of the Sun in G�ra�s Soledades (Rachel Schmidt) -- Showing and Telling: An Essay on Narrative Theory and Renaissance Drama (Elizabeth M. Richmond-Garza). ISBN 9780815323976