The rhetorics of life-writing in early modern Europe

forms of biography from Cassandra Fedele to Louis XIV

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The rhetorics of life-writing in early modern Europe

forms of biography from Cassandra Fedele to Louis XIV

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Lives as lived and lives as written are never one and the same. To turn the first into the second one must introduce "fiction" into the "fact" of the actual existence. This generalization holds especially true for the wide variety of life-writing forms employed during the Renaissance. The Rhetorics of Life-Writing in Early Modern Europe explores the ways in which authors and their subjects constructed images for themselves, and some of the ways in which those images worked.

The kinds of life-writing explored extend from familiar modes of biography (hagiography, for example) to less usual but still literary representations, such as the parody prosopography of The Lives of Obscure Men. Some essays stay within fairly traditional forms but study their employment in the hands of women. Others cross boundaries, illuminating, for example, the martyrology of John Foxe as comedy, or revealing unknown forms of life-writing in Lutheran funeral sermons.

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English
Pages
391

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Ann Arbor
Series
Studies in medieval and early modern civilization

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808/.06692
Library of Congress
CT21 .R52 1995, CT21.R52 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 391 p. :
Number of pages
391

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Open Library
OL1270664M
ISBN 10
0472105914
LCCN
95001859
OCLC/WorldCat
32093798
Library Thing
4469768
Goodreads
1118460

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