European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Published by University of Toronto Press 2002

European Literary Careers

The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Edited by: Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442674684

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About this book

In this first book-length study in the fieldof authorial criticism, various specialists from Italian, French, English, and Spanish studies collectively discuss literary careers spanning from classical antiquity through the Renaissance.

Author / Editor information

Cheney Patrick :

Patrick Cheney is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.

de Armas Frederick A. :

Frederick A. de Armas is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago..

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION. 'Jog on, jog on': European Career Paths Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
One. Greek Lives and Roman Careers in the Classical Vita Tradition Joseph Farrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Two. From Cursus to Ductus: Figures of Writing in Western Late Antiquity (Augustine, Jerome, Cassiodorus, Bede) Mark Vessey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Three. Medieval Literary Career Robert R. Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Four. Authority and Influence - Vocation Anxiety: The Sense of a Literary in the Sentimental Novel and Celestina James F. Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Five. Versions of a Career: Petrarch His Renaissance Commentators William J. Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Six. Judging a Literary Career: The Case of Antonio de Guevara (14807-1545) Kathleen Bollard de Broce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Seven. Arms versus Letters: The Poetics of War and the Career of the Poet in Early Modern Spain Anne J. Cruz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Eight. Divine Poetry as a Career Move: The Complexities and Consolations of Following David Anne Lake Prescott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Nine. 'Novells of his devise': Chaucerian and Virgilian Career Paths in Spenser's Februarie Eclogue Patrick Cheney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Ten. Cervantes and the Virgilian Wheel: The Portrayal of a Literary Career Frederick A. de Armas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
Eleven. Epic Violence: Captives, Moriscos, and Empire in Cervantes Álvaro Molina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Twelve. Renaissance Englishwomen and the Literary Career Susanne Woods, Margaret P. Hannay, Elaine Beilin and Anne Shaver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256

eBook

Published: November 26, 2002
ISBN: 9781442674684