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Author Bearden, Elizabeth B., 1975-

Title The emblematics of the self : ekphrasis and identity in Renaissance imitations of Greek romance / Elizabeth B. Bearden
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012)

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations, digital file
Contents Chapter One The Romance Globe: Why the Renaissance Repainted Greek Romance -- Chapter Two Converso Convertida: Cross-dressed Narration and Ekphrastic Interpretation in Leucippe and Clitophon and Clareo y Florisea -- Chapter Three Amazon Eyes and Shifting Emblems in Sidney's Greek Arcadia -- Chapter Four Painting Counterfeit Canvases: Heliodoran Pictographs, American Lienzos, and European Imaginings of the Barbarian in Cervantes' Persiles -- Chapter Five Pictura Locorum: Heliodoran Hieroglyphs and Anglo-African Identity in Barclay's Argenis -- Chapter Six "We are all picturd in that Piece": Lovers, Persians, Tartars, and the "Tottering" Romance Globe in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Conclusions
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index
Subject European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Greek influences
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Ekphrasis.
ekphrasis.
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Ekphrasis
European literature -- Renaissance
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011278012
ISBN 9781442696143
1442696141
1442643463
9781442643468