Renaissance Go-Betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

Published by De Gruyter 2005

Renaissance Go-Betweens

Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

Edited by: Andreas Höfele and Werner von Koppenfels

Volume 2 in the series spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919516

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About this book

The volume analyses some of the travelling and bridge-building activities that went on in Renaissance Europe, mainly but not exclusively across the Channel, true to Montaigne's epoch-making program of describing 'the passage'. Its emphasis on Anglo-Continental relations ensures a firm basis in English literature, but its particular appeal lies in its European point of view, and in the perspectives it opens up into other areas of early modern culture, such as pictorial art, philosophy, and economics. The multiple implications of the go-between concept make for structured diversity.

The chapters of this book are arranged in three stages. Part 1 ('Mediators') focuses on influential go-betweens, both as groups, like the translators, and as individual mediators. The second part of this book ('Mediations') is concerned with individual acts of mediation, and with the 'mental topographies' they presuppose, reflect and redraw in their turn. Part 3 ('Representations') looks at the role of exemplary intermediaries and the workings of mediation represented on the early modern English stage.

Key features

High quality anthology on phenomena of cultural exchange in the Renaissance era
With contributions by outstanding international experts

Author / Editor information

Andreas Höfele is Professor of English at Munich University and a member of the Heidelberg and Bavarian Academies of Science and President of the German Shakespeare Society.

Werner von Koppenfels is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Munich University and a member of the German Academy of Language and Literature.

Reviews

"Ein Sammelband, der den Austausch der Kulturen thematisiert ohne deren Besonderheiten zu vergessen, der methodisch das Aufeinanderzugehen postuliert und praktiziert; kurz: der den Weg zu Uniformität und Selbstisolation begrüßenswerterweise gerade vermeidet. Ihm seien viele Leser und Nachahmer gewünscht."
Helge Nowak in: Anglia 1/2007

"This latter grouping of essays, like the majoritiy in the volume as a whole, are subtly mounted, forward-looking and complex, bringing to a conclusion a collection that ist readable and versatile as it is enlightening and original."
Mark Thornton Burnett in: Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2007

"There is much to learn from the individual articles as well as from the overall volume."
Gesa Stedman in: Renaissance Quarterly 2006

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i-vi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction ANDREAS HÖFELE and WERNER VON KOPPENFELS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Mediators. Routes of Exchange
The Renaissance Translator as Go-Between PETER BURKE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Inglese Italianato – Italiano Anglizzato: John Florio MANFRED PFISTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Ash Wednesday in Westminster: Giordano Bruno meets Elizabethan England WERNER VON KOPPENFELS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
De Witt, van Buchell, the Wooden O, and the Yellow M PAUL FRANSSEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
John Dee as Cultural, Scientific, Apocalyptic Go-Between GYÖRGY Ε. SZÖNYI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
John Wolfe and the Impact of Exemplary Go-Betweens on Early Modern Print Culture SONIA MASSAI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
II. Mediations. Mental Topographies
Hybrids: Learning from a Gilded Silver Beaker (Antwerp, c. 1530) CARLO GINZBURG Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
British Cultural History and Church History for the Continent: John Bale’s Summarium (1548) and Catalogus (1557–59) HERBERT GRABES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Machiavellian Dissimulation and Allegory: The Writings of Roger Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney JOHN ROE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Moses as Go-Between: John Spencer’s Theory of Religious Translation JAN ASSMANN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
III. Representations. Staging the Go-Between
Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between RICHARD WILSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Spirits, Ghosts, Demons in Shakespeare and Milton ALEIDA ASSMANN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
‘A membrane has broken’: Returning from the Dead in The Spanish Tragedy ALEXANDER LEGGATT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
‘The Words of Mercury’: Shakespeare’s Love Ambassadors FRANÇOIS LAROQUE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Incising Venice: the Violence of Cultural Incorporation in The Merchant of Venice PHILIPPA BERRY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Iago the Essayist: Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare CATHERINE BELSEY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
290-292 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics Literary Studies (German Studies, English Studies, Comparative Studies), Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 289
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
Keywords: Kulturbeziehungen; Renaissance; Humanismus (Zeitalter); Übersetzung; Shakespeare, Wiliam

eBook

Published: December 22, 2011
ISBN: 9783110919516

Hardcover

Published: March 16, 2005
ISBN: 9783110182156