What Nature Does Not Teach - Juanita Feros Ruys

Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods

KORTE INHOUD

This interdisciplinary volume takes as its subject the multi-faceted genre of didactic literature (the literature of instruction) which constituted the cornerstone of literary enterprise and social control in medieval and early modern Europe. Following an Introduction that raises questions of didactic meaning, intent, audience, and social effect, nineteen chapters deal with the construction of the individual didactic voice and persona in the premodern period, didactic literature for children, women as the creators, objects, and consumers of didactic literature, the influence of advice literature on adult literacy, piety, and heresy, and the revision of classical didactic forms and motifs in the early modern period. Attention is paid throughout to the continuities of didactic literature across the medieval and early modern periods-its intertextuality, reliance on tradition, and self-renewal-and to questions of gender, authority, control, and the socially constructed nature of advice. Contributors particularly ...
2008Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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2008Uitgever: Brepols Publishers527 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503525962ISBN-13: 9782503525969

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