European Literary Careers : : The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance / / Frederick A. de Armas, Patrick Cheney.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Cheney, Patrick,; de Armas, Frederick A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Authorial studies, or 'career criticism' is a new and distinctive branch of interpretive methodology that explores various paths of European careers, particularly literary careers. In this first book-length study in the field various specialists from Italian, French, English, and Spanish studies collectively discuss literary careers spanning from classical antiquity through the Renaissance. They argue that the idea of a literary career evolves slowly, derives centrally from Virgil, and that the periodization from classical, medieval and Renaissance culture helps to elucidate the details of that evolution. Including authors from Theocritus to Spenser, the contributors correlate an author's sense of a career to the period of history in which he or she is writing, foregrounding his or her role in the multi-sphered life of the nation, especially its institutions of family, state, and church. Authorship and agency, genre and genre patterning, imitation and intertextuality, politics and religions, sexuality and gender all become part of the complex template for defining the idea of a literary career. Unique in both scope and topic, this study breaks new ground in current critical theory, allowing for complex interrelations between models of authorial agency and models of social construction.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. 'Jog on, jog on': European Career Paths -- One. Greek Lives and Roman Careers in the Classical Vita Tradition / Farrell, Joseph -- Two. From Cursus to Ductus: Figures of Writing in Western Late Antiquity (Augustine, Jerome, Cassiodorus, Bede) / Vessey, Mark -- Three. Medieval Literary Career / Edwards, Robert R. -- Four. Authority and Influence - Vocation Anxiety: The Sense of a Literary in the Sentimental Novel and Celestina / Burke, James F. -- Five. Versions of a Career: Petrarch His Renaissance Commentators / Kennedy, William J. -- Six. Judging a Literary Career: The Case of Antonio de Guevara (14807-1545) / Broce, Kathleen Bollard de -- Seven. Arms versus Letters: The Poetics of War and the Career of the Poet in Early Modern Spain / Cruz, Anne J. -- Eight. Divine Poetry as a Career Move: The Complexities and Consolations of Following David / Prescott, Anne Lake -- Nine. 'Novells of his devise': Chaucerian and Virgilian Career Paths in Spenser's Februarie Eclogue / Cheney, Patrick -- Ten. Cervantes and the Virgilian Wheel: The Portrayal of a Literary Career / Armas, Frederick A. de -- Eleven. Epic Violence: Captives, Moriscos, and Empire in Cervantes / Molina, Álvaro -- Twelve. Renaissance Englishwomen and the Literary Career / Woods, Susanne / Hannay, Margaret P. / Beilin, Elaine / Shaver, Anne -- Works Cited -- Contributors