Vulnerable Text - Essays on Renaissance Literatur: Essays on Renaissance Literature.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / perfect condition - These provocative essays not only .break new ground individually in their analyses of dominant Renaissance figures but together suggest fresh ways of thinking about Renaissance culture - and about the literature of any era. Thomas Greene ranges across the landscape of Renaissance literature from Petrarch to Ben Jonson, with essays as well on Erasmus, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Rabelais, Sceve, Montaigne, Shakespeare�s Love's Labour�s Lost, and two essays on his sonnets. A concluding essay, �History and Anachronism," ranges from antiquity to the twentieth century. -- Though many readers will find this collection valuable simply for its discussions of separate authors, the recurring themes and concepts displayed here allow the pieces to converse with and reinterpret each other. Greene�s faith in the moral dimension of literature and his interest in Renaissance intertextuality emerge repeatedly. -- Perhaps the most original concept in the book is expressed by the title�the concept of textual vulnerability. Greene contends that a work is �vulnerable" for a number of reasons: �because it depends on arbitrary, time-specific signifiers, because the reader�s distance from the text�s origins heightens the difficulty of interpretation, because elements and voices within the text may be in conflict, because literary texts by definition flirt with the ineffable, and because they make use of counter-logical figures." Each text may also display its own particular vulnerability. Despite these factors, Greene argues that the more vulnerable a text is the richer it can be: �the literary text that merits our interest exposes itself to risk in order to achieve its particular resonance and value." -- Distinctive for its superb readings of major Renaissance figures and its new theoretical approaches, The Vulnerable Text will interest readers within Renaissance studies and theorists from other specialties. ISBN 9780231062466