Petrarch's humanism and the care of the self
By: Gur Zak.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521114677
Subjects: Petrarca, Francesco, -- 1304-1374 -- Criticism and interpretation; Petrarca, Francesco, -- 1304-1374 -- Philosophy; Humanism in literature; Self in literature; Humanists -- Italy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The indeterminate self : writing, desire, and temporality in Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium; title: Fragmenta; title: The crisis of the narrative self; title: Petrarch's humanism and the ethics of care of the self; title: Ovid, Augustine, and the limits of the ethics of care of the self.