Incomplete Fictions - Formation of Eng. Renaissance dialogue
Language: English
Published by First edition, published by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 1985., 1985
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Fine with near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped at top front corner. 198 pages with index and bibliography.
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- Title
- Incomplete Fictions - Formation of Eng. Renaissance dialogue
- Author
- Wilson, K.J.
- Publisher
- First edition, published by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 1985.
- Publication year
- 1985
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0813205980
- ISBN 13
- 9780813205984
- Edition
- 1st Edition
The English Renaissance writers believed that in the deepest reaches of the self or soul were what they read. Erasmus, using the metaphor of literature as food, said that we must become what we learn. Thomas More complained in a letter, "I have no time for myself, that is, for literature." Incomplete Fictions traces the development of the preeminent literary form in the English humanists - dialogue - and its impact on the consciousness of these writers.
By describing dialogue as a "medial art," thus emphasizing the role of the humanists as mediators between the ideas of antiquity and their own sensory world, Wilson is able to focus both classical theory and biographical information on each text and on its central topic. His analysis includes the dialogues of Ficino, Bembo, and Erasmus, Elyot, Ascham, and More.
Through the combined influences of classical (Platonic and Ciceronian) dialogue, the unique personalities of these Renaissance humanists, and the culture of humanism as a movement, Tudor dialogue evolved into an expressed mode for imitating the interior world of thought and emotion. Incomplete Fictions is the first book-length study of this evolution.
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