The classics, revised edition : readers, authors, and editors in sixteenth-century France
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- If we take sixteenth-century poets by their word, then the labor of reading and the practice of imitation that go into becoming an author of classical stature require nothing more than personal diligence and access to ancient texts. Like a bee flying from flower to flower and culling nectar, the Renaissance poet, we are led to believe, gathers what he can from his readings and transfroms the harvest into his own blend of literary honey. Modern literary critics have in part adopted this famous trope as their frame of reference to account for Renaissance practices of reading, writing, and authoring. As a critical shorthand, however, this account glosses over the complexities of sixteenth-century textual practices and misleadingly implies that the only constraints the poet faces stem from the availability and nature of ancient texts. This dissertation shows how, from the first steps of reading to the final publication of an authorized work, sixteenth-century humanists and poets both depend on and are constrained by their audiences, their competitors, and their editors. Mapping out these contemporary networks means revising fundamental conceptions about the Renaissance. The period does not revolve around an exclusive relationship to antiquity; rather, its engagement with the classics is sustained in the present, mediated by contemporaries, and oriented towards the future.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Glauser, Vanessa Severine |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Alduy, Cécile |
| Thesis advisor | Alduy, Cécile |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Martin, Richard P |
| Thesis advisor | Nightingale, Andrea Wilson |
| Degree committee member | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Degree committee member | Martin, Richard P |
| Degree committee member | Nightingale, Andrea Wilson |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of French & Italian. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Vanessa Glauser. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of French & Italian. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Vanessa Severine Glauser
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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