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Title:

European literary careers : the author from antiquity to the Renaissance / edited by Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

x, 366 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

European literature--History and criticism.
Classical literature--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Cheney, Patrick Gerard, 1949-
De Armas, Frederick Alfred.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-361).

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 ... [et al.].

ISBN:

9780802047793 (alk. paper)
0802047793 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49204841

LCCN:

2003276712

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)