Medusa's Gaze. Casuistry and Conscience in the Renaissance. - GALLEGER, LOWELL
casuistry and conscience in the Renaissance
KORTE INHOUD
The author establishes casuistical hermeneutics as a central organizing principle of Spenserian narrative and charts the connection between Spenserian narrative and novelistic discourse (in Bakhtin's sense of the term). These documents yield new insights into the politics of ambiguity and misreading in the Elizabethan period, variously exploiting the casuistical doctrines of equivocation, 'honest dissimulation', and mental reservation, as well as what the author calls the rhetoric of inviolability, which was associated with the voice of conscience and appropriated by monarch and dissidents alike. That rhetoric depended on a politic self-censorship that proved indispensable to the maintenance of the culture's norms, producing narrative structures that represent scandalous - and theoretically unrepresentable - insights. Reading the text of casuistry in the Renaissance illumines the pivotal, complementary processes of reading and writing the texts through which Elizabethan culture defined itself - its texts of p...
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1991Uitgever: Stanford University Press331 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0804718598ISBN-13: 9780804718592Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's black cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: frontispiece, [viij], 332pp., chapternotes & references, general bibliography, index, colophon. Very fine copy. Stanford, Stanford University Press. 1991 [Auteur: GALLEGER, LOWELL] [Jaar: 1991] [Titel: Medusa's Gaze. Casuistry and Conscience in the Renaissance.]
