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Self-commentary in early modern European literature, 1400-1700 [electronic resource] / edited by Francesco Venturi

Published:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Physical Description:
xiv, 431 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators:
Venturi, Francesco, 1984-
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Contents:
Alberti's commentarium to his first literary work : self-commentary as self-presentation in The Philodoxeos / Martin McLaughlin -- Elucidation and self-explanation in Filelfo's Marginalia / Jeroen De Keyser -- Vernacular self-commentary during medieval early modernity : Reginald Pecock and Gavin Douglas / Ian Johnson -- On the threshold of poems : a paratextual approach to the narrative/ lyric opposition in Italian Renaissance poetry / Federica Pich -- Self-commentary on language in sixteenth-century Italian prefatory letters / Brian Richardson -- 'All outward and on show' : Montaigne's external glosses / John O'Brien -- Companions in folly : genre and poetic practice in five Elizabethan anthologies / Harriet Archer -- The journey of the soul : the prose commentaries on his own poems by St John of the Cross / Colin P. Thompson -- Blood, sweat, and tears : annotation and self-exegesis in La ceppède / Russell Ganim -- Can a poet be "master of [his] owne meaning?" : George Chapman and the paradoxes of authorship / Gilles Bertheau -- Critical failures : Corneille observes his spectators / Joseph Harris -- Self-criticism, self-assessment, and self-affirmation : the case of the (young) author in early modern Dutch literature / Els Stronks -- Reading the margins : the uses of authorial side glosses in Anna Stanislawska's Rransaction (1685) / Magdalena Ozarska -- Mockery and erudition : Alessandro Tassoni's Secchia rapita and Francesco Redi's Bacco in Toscana / Carlo Caruso.
Summary:
"This volume investigates the various ways in which writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves, across early modern Europe. A multiplicity of self-commenting modes, ranging from annotations to explicatory prose to prefaces to separate critical texts and exemplifying a variety of literary genres, are subjected to analysis. Self-commentaries are more than just an external apparatus: they direct and control reception of the primary text, thus affecting notions of authorship and readership. With the writer understood as a potentially very influential and often tendentious interpreter of their own work, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on pre-modern and modern forms of critical self-consciousness, self-representation, and self-validation"--
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ISBN:
9789004346864 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9789004396593 (ebook)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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