European literary careers : the author from antiquity to the Renaissance /
European literary careers : the author from antiquity to the Renaissance /
edited by Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas.
- Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2002.
- 1 online resource (x, 366 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: 'Jog on, jog on", European career paths / Patrick Cheney -- Greek lives and Roman careers in the classical Vita tradition / Joseph Farrell -- From Cursus to Ductus: figures of writing in western late antiquity (Augustine, Jerome, Cassiodorus, Bede) / Mark Vessey -- Medieval literary careers: the Theban track / Robert R. Edwards -- Authority and influence -- vocation and anxiety: the sense of a literary career in the sentimental novel and Celestina / James F. Burke -- Versions of a career: Petrarch and his Renaissance commentators / William J. Kennedy -- Judging a literary career: the case of Antonio de Guevara (1480?-1545) / Kathleen Bollard de Broce -- Arms versus letters: the poetics of war and the career of the poet in early modern Spain / Anne J. Cruz -- Divine poetry as a career move: the complexities and consolations of following David / Anne Lake Prescott -- 'Novells of his devise': Chaucerian and Virgilian career paths in Spenser's Februarie eclogue / Patrick Cheney -- Cervantes and the Virgilian wheel: the portrayal of a literary career / Frederick A. de Armas -- Epic violence: captives, Moriscos, and empire in Cervantes / Álvaro Molina -- Renaissance Englishwomen and the literary career / Susanne Woods [and others].
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.
9781442674684 (electronic bk.) 1442674687 (electronic bk.) (bound)
22573/ctt53g9m JSTOR
European literature--History and criticism.
Classical literature--History and criticism.
Authorship.
Authorship
Littérature européenne--Histoire et critique.
Littérature ancienne--Histoire et critique.
Art d'écrire.
authorship.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--General.
Authorship.
Classical literature.
European literature.
Schrijvers.
Loopbaan.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN151 / .E87 2002eb
809
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: 'Jog on, jog on", European career paths / Patrick Cheney -- Greek lives and Roman careers in the classical Vita tradition / Joseph Farrell -- From Cursus to Ductus: figures of writing in western late antiquity (Augustine, Jerome, Cassiodorus, Bede) / Mark Vessey -- Medieval literary careers: the Theban track / Robert R. Edwards -- Authority and influence -- vocation and anxiety: the sense of a literary career in the sentimental novel and Celestina / James F. Burke -- Versions of a career: Petrarch and his Renaissance commentators / William J. Kennedy -- Judging a literary career: the case of Antonio de Guevara (1480?-1545) / Kathleen Bollard de Broce -- Arms versus letters: the poetics of war and the career of the poet in early modern Spain / Anne J. Cruz -- Divine poetry as a career move: the complexities and consolations of following David / Anne Lake Prescott -- 'Novells of his devise': Chaucerian and Virgilian career paths in Spenser's Februarie eclogue / Patrick Cheney -- Cervantes and the Virgilian wheel: the portrayal of a literary career / Frederick A. de Armas -- Epic violence: captives, Moriscos, and empire in Cervantes / Álvaro Molina -- Renaissance Englishwomen and the literary career / Susanne Woods [and others].
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.
9781442674684 (electronic bk.) 1442674687 (electronic bk.) (bound)
22573/ctt53g9m JSTOR
European literature--History and criticism.
Classical literature--History and criticism.
Authorship.
Authorship
Littérature européenne--Histoire et critique.
Littérature ancienne--Histoire et critique.
Art d'écrire.
authorship.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--General.
Authorship.
Classical literature.
European literature.
Schrijvers.
Loopbaan.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN151 / .E87 2002eb
809