The Renaissance rediscovery of intimacy
By: Kathy Eden
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780226184623
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Classical letters; Renaissance Rhetoric; Influence; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Ancient Rhetoric; Classical influences; European letters; Intimacy (Psychology) in literature
Description: This title explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance. Eden draws chiefly upon Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca to show how the classical genre of the 'familiar' letter emerged centuries later in the intimate styles of Petrarch Erasmus, and Montaigne.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Rediscovering style; title: A rhetoric of intimacy in antiquity; title: A rhetoric and hermeneutics of intimacy in Petrarch's Familiares; title: Familiaritas in Erasmian rhetoric and hermeneutics; title: Reading and writing intimately in Montaigne's Essais; title: Conclusion: Rediscovering individuality.