Dancing Around the Well: The Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) - Hardcover

MacPhail, Eric M.

 
9789004274396: Dancing Around the Well: The Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
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ISBN 10: 9004274391 ISBN 13: 9789004274396
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2014

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This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a process of reanimation and revitalization, where frozen sayings thaw out and come to life, or conversely as a process of immobilization and incrustation that petrifies tradition. The paradigmatic figure for this process is the proverbial dance around the well, which expresses both the danger and the compulsion of borrowed speech.

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Eric MacPhail, Ph.D. (1988) Princeton University, is Professor of French at Indiana University. He has published widely on French Renaissance literature and on the classical tradition in Renaissance humanism, including The Sophistic Renaissance (Droz, 2011).

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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004274391
ISBN 13 
9789004274396
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Anzahl der Seiten
174
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