Printed voices : the Renaissance culture of dialogue / edited by Dorothea Heitsch and Jean-Francois Vallee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heitsch, Dorothea B., 1968- editor.

Vallée, Jean-François, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialogue.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prevalent but long-neglected genres such as dialogue have recently been attracting attention in Renaissance studies. In view of the pervasive and varied nature of this genre's use in the European Renaissance, it has become crucial to widen the perspective so as to take into account more diverse approaches to this hybrid form. For this reason, Dorothea Heitsch and Jean-François Vallee have assembled a broad collection of essays by international scholars that presents comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretical inquiry into this neglected area. The contributors who bring with them different linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary backgrounds examine dialogue from a variety of perspectives, taking into account various factors linked to the upsurge of the genre in the Renaissance. These factors include the emergence of a complex and multifarious subjectivity, the advent of modern utopias, the social and political importance of courtliness, the rise of print culture, religious and scientific controversy, the prevalence of pedagogy and rhetorical culture, the ethos of humanism, the gendering of dialogue, and Renaissance 'logocentrism.' Discussed are some of the most important works in Italian, French, German, Neo-Latin, and English, as well as some lesser known texts, making Printed Voices a truly essential volume for the Renaissance scholar.

Contents:

Foreword / Dorothea Heitsch, Jean-François Vallee

THE FATE OF DIALOGUE

Problematizing Renaissance exemplarity: the inward turn of dialogue from Petrarch to Montaigne / François Rigolot

THE UTOPIA OF DIALOGUE

Dialogue, Utopia, and the agencies of fiction / Nina Chordas

The fellowship of the book: printed voices and written friendships in More's Utopia / Jean-François Vallee

Thomas More's Utopia and the problem of writing a literary history of English Renaissance dialogue / J. Christopher Warner

DIALOGUE AND THE COURT

The development of dialogue in Il libro del cortegiano: from the manuscript drafts to the definitive version / Olga Zorzi Pugliese

Pietro Aretino between the locus mendacii and the locus veritatis / Robert Buranello

From dialogue to conversation: the place of Marie de Gournay / Dorothea Heitsch

DIALOGUES WITH HISTORY, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE

'Truth hath the victory': dialogue and disputation in John Foxe's Actes and monuments / Joseph Puterbaugh

Milton's 'Hence': dialogue and the shape of history in 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' / W. Scott Howard

Hobbes, rhetoric, and the art of the dialogue / Luc Borot

THE PURPOSE OF DIALOGUE

Francesco Barbaro's De re uxoria: a silent dialogue for a young Medici bride / Carole Collier Frick

Dialogue and German language learning in the Renaissance / Nicola McLelland

THE SUBJECT OF DIALOGUE

Renaissance dialogue and subjectivity / Eva Kushner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-99642-4

9786611996420

1-4426-7874-7

OCLC:

1013939755