Printed voices : the Renaissance culture of dialogue
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.
xxiii, 291 p. ; 24 cm
9780802087065, 080208706X
912375851
Foreword - Dorothea Heitsch and Jean-François Vallée Part One: The Fate of Dialogue Problematizing Exemplarity: The Inward Turn of Dialogue from Bruni to Montaigne. François Rigolot (Princeton University) Part Two: The Utopia of Dialogue Dialogue, Utopia, and the Agencies of Fiction. Nina Chordas (University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau)The Fellowship of the Book, Printed Voices and Written Friendships in More's Utopia. Jean-François Vallée (Collège de Maisonneuve, Montreal)Thomas More's Utopia and the Problem of Writing a Literary History of EnglishRenaissance Dialogue. Chris Warner (Kent State Uniersity – East Liverpool) Part Three: Dialogue and the Court The Development of Dialogue in Il libro del cortegiano: From the Manuscripts Drafts to the Definitive Version. Olga Pugliese (University of Toronto)Between the locus mendacii and the locus veritatis: Pietro Aretino's Ragionemento delle corti. Robert Buranello (Georgetown University)From Dialogue to Conversation: Marie de Gournay's Views on a Social Activity. Dorothea Heitsch (Shippensburg University) Part Four: Dialogues with History, Religion, and Science 'Truth Hath the Victory': Dialogue and Disputation in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. Josef Puterbaugh (Independent Writer)Milton's Hence: Dialogue and the Shape of History in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. W. Scott Howard (University of Denver)Hobbes, Rhetoric, and the Art of the Dialogue. Luc Borot (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier) Part Five: The Purpose of Dialogue Francesco Barbaro'sDe Re Uxoria: A Silent Dialogue for a Young Medici Bride. Carole Collier Firck (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)Dialogue and German Language Learning in the Renaissance. Nicola McLelland (Trinity College, Dublin) Part Six: The Subject of Dialogue Renaissance Dialogue and Subjectivity. Eva Kushner (Victoria University, Toronto)