Discourses Of Authority In Medieval And Renaissance Literature
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A rigorous work of literary scholarship, Discourses of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Literature presents a collection of critical essays that interrogate how authority—textual, political, religious, and gendered—was constructed, contested, and transmitted across medieval and Renaissance literary traditions. Drawing on a wide range of primary texts and theoretical frameworks, the volume illustrates how writers from Dante and Christine de Pizan to later Renaissance authors negotiated their relationships with inherited canons, institutional power, and the act of writing itself. Each essay argues for a nuanced understanding of how authorship and legitimacy were not fixed categories but dynamic sites of cultural negotiation, shaped by the social and intellectual pressures of their respective eras. Scholarly in tone yet accessible to advanced students of literature and history, the collection details the interplay between vernacular and Latin traditions, gender and voice, and sacred and secular authority. An essential resource for anyone engaged with medieval and Renaissance studies, it uncovers the ideological underpinnings that gave literary texts their cultural weight and enduring influence.
Author: Kevin Brownlee And Walter Stephens
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A rigorous work of literary scholarship, Discourses of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Literature presents a collection of critical essays that interrogate how authority—textual, political, religious, and gendered—was constructed, contested, and transmitted across medieval and Renaissance literary traditions. Drawing on a wide range of primary texts and theoretical frameworks, the volume illustrates how writers from Dante and Christine de Pizan to later Renaissance authors negotiated their relationships with inherited canons, institutional power, and the act of writing itself. Each essay argues for a nuanced understanding of how authorship and legitimacy were not fixed categories but dynamic sites of cultural negotiation, shaped by the social and intellectual pressures of their respective eras. Scholarly in tone yet accessible to advanced students of literature and history, the collection details the interplay between vernacular and Latin traditions, gender and voice, and sacred and secular authority. An essential resource for anyone engaged with medieval and Renaissance studies, it uncovers the ideological underpinnings that gave literary texts their cultural weight and enduring influence.