| Description |
1 online resource (x, 366 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: 'Jog on, jog on", European career paths / Patrick Cheney -- Greek lives and Roman careers in the classical Vita tradition / Joseph Farrell -- From Cursus to Ductus: figures of writing in western late antiquity (Augustine, Jerome, Cassiodorus, Bede) / Mark Vessey -- Medieval literary careers: the Theban track / Robert R. Edwards -- Authority and influence -- vocation and anxiety: the sense of a literary career in the sentimental novel and Celestina / James F. Burke -- Versions of a career: Petrarch and his Renaissance commentators / William J. Kennedy -- Judging a literary career: the case of Antonio de Guevara (1480?-1545) / Kathleen Bollard de Broce -- Arms versus letters: the poetics of war and the career of the poet in early modern Spain / Anne J. Cruz -- Divine poetry as a career move: the complexities and consolations of following David / Anne Lake Prescott -- 'Novells of his devise': Chaucerian and Virgilian career paths in Spenser's Februarie eclogue / Patrick Cheney -- Cervantes and the Virgilian wheel: the portrayal of a literary career / Frederick A. de Armas -- Epic violence: captives, Moriscos, and empire in Cervantes / Álvaro Molina -- Renaissance Englishwomen and the literary career / Susanne Woods [and others] |
| Summary |
In this first book-length study in the fieldof authorial criticism, various specialists from Italian, French, English, and Spanish studies collectively discuss literary careers spanning from classical antiquity through the Renaissance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
European literature -- History and criticism
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Classical literature -- History and criticism
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Authorship.
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Authorship
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authorship.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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Authorship
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Classical literature
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European literature
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Schrijvers.
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Loopbaan.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cheney, Patrick, 1949- editor.
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De Armas, Frederick A., 1945- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781442674684 |
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1442674687 |
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