Sachgebiete

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XI; 160 S.; 23 cm; kart.

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Gutes Ex.; Einband geringfügig berieben. - Englisch. - STEPHANIE H. JED is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. / "Chaste Thinking is not only a brilliant hermeneutic exercise, but a model of erudition and fidelity to the original sources, in the best tradition of Renaissance philological and paleographic criticism. Stephanie Jed's exposition of mercantile ragione is an original characterization of the material-social bases of Renaissance humanism. In her provocative interpretation of the Lucretia legend, she offers a new and original argument about the nature of writing, the transmission of texts and the formation of canons, and the relation between scholarship and ethics." ? Hayden White ... (Verlagstext) // INHALT : ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ----- INTRODUCTION ----- CHAPTER ONE ----- Turn Brutus castigator lacrimarum The Cruelty of Brutus and the Politics of Philology ----- CHAPTER TWO ----- Per hunc castissimum sanguinem ----- Lucretia's Chastity and the Alienation from Literary Material ----- CHAPTER THREE ----- In secretis penetralibus ----- Mercantile Writing and the Construct of Privacy ----- AFTERWORD Modern Humanism and the Relation of Writing ----- APPENDIX ----- Facsimile, Transcription, and Translation of Salutati's ----- Declamatio Lucretiae ----- WORKS CITED ----- INDEX. ISBN 0253205069