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

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 s...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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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
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