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The emblematics of the self : ekphrasis and identity in Renaissance imitations of Greek romance / Elizabeth B. Bearden.
LIBRA PN56.I42 .B42 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bearden, Elizabeth B., 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--Greek influences.
- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
- Ekphrasis.
- European literature--Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- 1 The Romance Globe: Why the Renaissance Repainted Greek Romance 19
- 2 Converso Convertida: Cross-Dressed Narration and Ekphrastic Interpretation in Leucippe and Clitophon and Clareoy Florisea 47
- 3 Amazon Eyes and Shifting Emblems in Sidney's Greek Arcadia 66
- 4 Painting Counterfeit Canvases: Heliodoran Pictographs, American Lienzos, and European Imaginings of the Barbarian in Cervantes's Persiles 100
- 5 Pictura Locorum: Heliodoran Hieroglyphs and Anglo-African Identity in Barclay's Argenis 128
- 6 'We are all picturd in that Piece': Lovers, Persians, Tartars, and the 'Tottering' Romance Globe in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania 158.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442643468
- 1442643463
- OCLC:
- 774900345
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