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Record Nr.

UNINA9911090807003321

Titolo

Between Scylla and Charybdis : learned letter writers navigating the reefs of religious and political controversy in early modern Europe / / edited by Jeannine De Landtsheer & Henk Nellen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011

ISBN

1-283-11962-5

9786613119629

90-04-18602-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (566 p.)

Collana

Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 192

Altri autori (Persone)

LandtsheerJ. de (Jeanine)

NellenHenk J. M. <1949->

Disciplina

809.6

Soggetti

Letter writing - Europe - History - 16th century

Letter writing - Europe - History - 17th century

European letters - History and criticism

Intellectuals - Europe - Correspondence

Scholars - Europe - Correspondence

Written communication - Europe - History

Europe Intellectual life 16th century Congresses

Europe Intellectual life 17th century Congresses

Europe Religion Congresses

Europe Politics and government 1492-1648 Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from an international colloquium held in Leuven, Brussels, and The Hague, Dec. 14-16, 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Humanist letter writing before 1550 : various approaches -- pt. 2. Humanist letters as a miror of the reformation -- pt. 3. Learned letter writers in the Netherlands as witnesses of the Dutch revolt -- pt. 4. Vicissitudes of late humanism.

Sommario/riassunto

Early Modern letter-writing was often the only way to maintain regular and meaningful contact. Scholars, politicians, printers, and artists wrote to share private or professional news, to test new ideas, to support their friends, or pursue personal interests. Epistolary exchanges thus



provide a private lens onto major political, religious, and scholarly events. Sixteenth century’s reform movements created a sense of disorder, if not outright clashes and civil war. Scholars could not shy away from these tensions. The private sphere of letter-writing allowed them to express, or allude to, the conflicts of interest which arose from their studies, social status, and religious beliefs. Scholarly correspondences thus constitute an unparalleled source on the interrelation between broad historical developments and the convictions of a particularly expressive group of individuals.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911145848403321

Autore

Biesecker Barbara A

Titolo

Addressing postmodernity : Kenneth Burke, rhetoric, and a theory of social change / / Barbara A. Biesecker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8173-8259-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetoric and communication

Disciplina

801.95092

809.9113

809/.9113

Soggetti

Postmodernism (Literature)

Rhetoric

Literature and society

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-120) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Entering the Fray; 2. Reading Ontology in A Grammar of Motives; 3. A Rhetoric of Motives, or Toward an Ontology of the Social; 4. Further Speculations on the Dialectic: The Rhetoric of Religion; 5. From Communicative Action to Rhetorical Invention; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.In Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara



Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of symbols.  In discerning the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of human beings and rhetoric in it, Biesecker turns to the seminal work of Kenneth Burke.Through a close reading of Burke's major works, A Grammar of Motives, A Rhetoric of M