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Title: Paper Monsters: Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England (Material Texts)

Author : Samuel Fallon

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ISBN-10 : 0812251296

ISBN-13 : 9780812251296

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Paper Monsters: Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England (Material Texts) BY Samuel Fallon

Read Online and Download Paper Monsters: Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England (Material Texts). In Paper Monsters, Samuel Fallon charts the striking rise, at the turn to the seventeenth century, of a new species of textual being: the serial, semifictional persona. When Thomas Nashe introduced his charismatic alter ego Pierce Penilesse in a 1592 text, he described the figure as a paper monster, not fashioned but begotten into something curiously like life. The next decade bore this description out, as Pierce took on a life of his own, inspiring other writers to insert him into their own works. And Pierce was hardly alone: such figures as the polemicist Martin Marprelate, the lovers Philisides and Astrophil, the shepherd-laureate Colin Clout, the prodigal wit Euphues, and, in an odd twist, the historical author Robert Greene all outgrew their fictional origins, moving from text to text and author to author, purporting to speak their own words, even surviving their creators' deaths, and installing themselves in the process as agents at large in the real world of writing, .

Paper Monsters: Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England (Material Texts) by Samuel Fallon

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