Renaissance self-fashioning : from More to Shakespeare /

• Main Author: Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
• Subjects: More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, > Saint, > 1478-1535. > Μελέτη και διδασκαλία.; Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Μελέτη και διδασκαλία.; Αγγλική λογοτεχνία > Πρώιμη νεότερη, 1500-1700 > Ιστορία και κριτική; Εαυτός στη λογοτεχνία; Αγγλική λογοτεχνία > Ψυχολογικές απόψεις.; Αναγέννηση > Αγγλία

Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literacy figures of the English Renaissance- More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlo...

Table of Contents:

• At the table of the great : More's self-fashioning and self-cancellation
• The word of God in the age of mechanical reproduction
• Power, sexuality, and inwardness in Wyatt's poetry
• To fashion a gentleman : Spenser and the destruction of the bower of bliss
• Marlowe and the will to absolute play
• The improvisation of power.