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The birth of the modern mind : self, consciousness, and the invention of the sonnet / Paul Oppenheimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oppenheimer, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sonnet.
- Sonnets, European--History and criticism.
- Sonnets, European.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book suggests that the origins of the thought and literature which is termed ""modern"" can be traced to the 13th-century Italian invention of the sonnet, the first literary form since classical times meant not for performance but for silent reading and introspection.
- Contents:
- Contents; I: The Birth of the Modern Mind: New Facts and a Theory; II: Sonnets in the European Tradition; A Note on the Translations; Italian Sonnets; German Sonnets; French Sonnets; Spanish Sonnets; Notes on the Poets and Poems; III: Scholarly Background: The Origin of the Sonnet; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-52370-0
- 0-19-536347-7
- OCLC:
- 476012728
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