The Emblematics of the Self

Elizabeth R. Bearden

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Altri dati

Formato:
Hardback
Editore:
University of Toronto Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
272
Dimensioni:
235 X 160
Codice EAN:
9781442643468
Generi:
Literature & Fiction, Literature & Criticism
Altre informazioni:
8, 8 illustrations
Prezzo di copertina:
$ 65,00

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The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization. The Emblematics of the Self shows how the women, foreigners, and non-Christians of these tales reveal their identities and desires in their responses to the 'verbal pictures' of romance. Elizabeth B. Bearden illuminates how 'verbal pictures' enliven characterization in English, Spanish, and Neolatin romances from 1552 to 1621. She notes the capacity for change among characters - such as cross-dressed Amazons, shepherdish princesses, and white Mauritanians - who traverse transnational cultural and aesthetic environments. Engaging and rigorous, The Emblematics of the Self breaks new ground in understanding hegemonic and cosmopolitan European conceptions of the 'other,' as well as new possibilities for early modern identities, in an increasingly global Renaissance.

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IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Note on Editions, Translations, and AbbreviationsChapter OneThe Romance Globe: Why the Renaissance Repainted Greek RomanceChapter TwoConverso Convertida: Cross-dressed Narration and Ekphrastic Interpretation in Leucippe and Clitophon and Clareo y FloriseaChapter ThreeAmazon Eyes and Shifting Emblems in Sidney's Greek ArcadiaChapter FourPainting Counterfeit Canvases: Heliodoran Pictographs, American Lienzos, and European Imaginings of the Barbarian in Cervantes' PersilesChapter FivePictura Locorum: Heliodoran Hieroglyphs and Anglo-African Identity in Barclay's ArgenisChapter Six We are all picturd in that Piece : Lovers, Persians, Tartars, and the Tottering Romance Globe in Lady Mary Wroth's UraniaConclusionsWorks Cited