Printed Voices: The Renaissance Culture of Dialogue

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Jean-François Vallée, Dorothea B. Heitsch
University of Toronto Press, 01.01.2004 - 291 Seiten

Prevalent but long-neglected genres such as dialogue have recently been attracting attention in Renaissance studies. In view of the pervasive and varied nature of this genre's use in the European Renaissance, it has become crucial to widen the perspective so as to take into account more diverse approaches to this hybrid form. For this reason, Dorothea Heitsch and Jean-François Vallée have assembled a broad collection of essays by international scholars that presents comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretical inquiry into this neglected area.

The contributors ? who bring with them different linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary backgrounds ? examine dialogue from a variety of perspectives, taking into account various factors linked to the upsurge of the genre in the Renaissance. These factors include the emergence of a complex and multifarious subjectivity, the advent of modern utopias, the social and political importance of courtliness, the rise of print culture, religious and scientific controversy, the prevalence of pedagogy and rhetorical culture, the ethos of humanism, the gendering of dialogue, and Renaissance 'logocentrism.' Discussed are some of the most important works in Italian, French, German, Neo-Latin, and English, as well as some lesser known texts, making Printed Voices a truly essential volume for the Renaissance scholar.

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The Inward Turn
3
Dialogue Utopia and the Agencies of Fiction
27
Printed Voices and Written
42
From
79
Pietro Aretino between the locus mendacii and the locus veritatis
95
The Place of Marie de Gournay
113
Dialogue and Disputation in John Foxes
137
Dialogue and the Shape of History in LAllegro
157
Hobbes Rhetoric and the Art of the Dialogue
175
A Silent Dialogue for a Young
193
Dialogue and German Language Learning in the Renaissance
206
Renaissance Dialogue and Subjectivity
229
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Autoren-Profil (2004)

Dorothea Heitsch is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Shippenburg University. Jean-Franois Valle teaches at Collge de Maisonneuve and is a postdoctoral fellow at lUniversit de Montral.

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