03520nam 22006852 450 991045456190332120151005020620.01-107-11828-X0-521-03487-61-280-15456-X0-511-11810-40-511-14987-50-511-30989-90-511-48389-90-511-04882-3(CKB)111004366731798(EBL)142419(OCoLC)559639780(SSID)ssj0000219831(PQKBManifestationID)11184756(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219831(PQKBWorkID)10247449(PQKB)11651269(UkCbUP)CR9780511483899(MiAaPQ)EBC142419(Au-PeEL)EBL142419(CaPaEBR)ebr10014998(CaONFJC)MIL15456(EXLCZ)9911100436673179820090224d1999|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe performance of nobility in early modern European literature /David M. Posner[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1999.1 online resource (x, 272 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;33Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-511-00628-4 0-521-66181-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-266) and index.1.Introduction: "The Noble Hart" --2.Montaigne and the staging of the self --3.Mask and error in Francis Bacon --4.Noble Romans: Corneille and the theatre of aristocratic revolt --5.La Bruyere and the end of the theatre of nobility.This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courtesy manuals, through Montaigne and Bacon, to the literature of the Grand Siècle, David Posner examines the structures of public identity in the period. He focuses on the developing tensions between, on the one hand, literary or imaginative representations of 'nobility' and, on the other, the increasingly problematic historical position of the nobility themselves. These tensions produce a transformation in the notion of the noble self as a performance, and eventually doom court society and its theatrical mode of self-presentation. Situated at the intersection of rhetorical and historical theories of interpretation, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of the role of literature both in analysing and in shaping social identity.Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;33.European literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600History and criticismNobility in literatureNobility of character in literatureEuropean literatureHistory and criticism.Nobility in literature.Nobility of character in literature.809/.93353Posner David Matthew1034394UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910454561903321The performance of nobility in early modern European literature2453507UNINA