European literary careers
Subtitle: the author from antiquity to the Renaissance
By: edited by Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas.
Contributors: Cheney, Patrick Gerard, 1949-; De Armas, Frederick Alfred.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: European literature -- History and criticism.; Classical literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-361).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: 'Jog on, jog on", European career paths / Patrick Cheney; title: Greek lives and Roman careers in the classical Vita tradition / Joseph Farrell; title: From Cursus to Ductus: figures of writing in western late antiquity (Augustine, Jerome, Cassiodorus, Bede) / Mark Vessey; title: Medieval literary careers: the Theban track / Robert R. Edwards; title: Authority and influence - vocation and anxiety: the sense of a literary career in the sentimental novel and Celestina / James F. Burke; title: Versions of a career: Petrarch and his Renaissance commentators / William J. Kennedy; title: Judging a literary career: the case of Antonio de Guevara (1480?-1545) / Kathleen Bollard de Broce; title: Arms versus letters: the poetics of war and the career of the poet in early modern Spain / Anne J. Cruz; title: Divine poetry as a career move: the complexities and consolations of following David / Anne Lake Prescott; title: 'Novells of his devise': Chaucerian and Virgilian career paths in Spenser's Februarie eclogue / Patrick Cheney; title: Cervantes and the Virgilian wheel: the portrayal of a literary career / Frederick A. de Armas; title: Epic violence: captives, Moriscos, and empire in Cervantes / Álvaro Molina; title: Renaissance Englishwomen and the literary career / Susanne Woods ... [et al.].