04473nam 2200841 450 991045547270332120200520144314.01-282-01184-797866120118491-4426-7557-810.3138/9781442675575(CKB)2420000000004097(EBL)3251215(SSID)ssj0000298065(PQKBManifestationID)12061468(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000298065(PQKBWorkID)10343592(PQKB)10406426(SSID)ssj0001287619(PQKBManifestationID)12542763(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001287619(PQKBWorkID)11291264(PQKB)11258927(CaPaEBR)417517(CaBNvSL)thg00600233(MiAaPQ)EBC3251215(MiAaPQ)EBC4671576(DE-B1597)464519(OCoLC)979579510(DE-B1597)9781442675575(MiAaPQ)EBC3293410(Au-PeEL)EBL4671576(CaPaEBR)ebr11257281(OCoLC)244766926(EXLCZ)99242000000000409720160922h19931993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGuise and disguise rhetoric and characterization in the English Renaissance /Lloyd DavisToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1993.©19931 online resource (228 p.)Includes index.0-8020-3618-X 0-8020-2956-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Disguise in the Renaissance -- Chapter One: The Rhetoric of Characterization -- Chapter Two: Political Acts -- Chapter Three: The Allegorical Subject -- Chapter Four: The Figure of Woman -- Epilogue: Tragedy and Disguise -- Notes -- Index Disguise is a recurring figure in many Renaissance texts. In its apparent intention to deceive, it raises complex issues of identity, motivation, and the construction of character. Lloyd Davis's Guise and Disguise examines disguise as a rhetorical and dramatistic motif in a wide range of Renaissance texts. Drawing on the sociological analyses of character in the work of Goffmann and Garfinkel as well as on recent historicist studies of Renaissance literature, Davis argues against an essentialist notion of identity. He posits a counter-tradition of character as invented, shaped guise, a cultural process realized through rhetorical and dramatic performance.Davis traces the conflict between idealist and cultural notions of selfhood fromits classical roots to its role as a key social concern in the English Renaissance. He analyses rhetorical texts from Wilson, Rainolds, Puttenham, and Sidney; the political and social philosophies of Machiavelli, Castiglione, Montaigne, Bacon, and Hobbes; the religious writings of Erasmus, Calvin, and Donne; and the dramatic works of Lyly, Shakespeare, Marston, Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher. He sees issues of selfhood and identity as central to the period's ideological and gender discourses, and strategies of disguise and character-making as challenging the political and sexual motives that underlie imags of the essentialist self. Davis's approach links Renaissance culture both to its past and to modern and post-modern notions of subjectivity and language.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismEnglish languageEarly modern, 1500-1700RhetoricDisguise in literatureCharacters and characteristics in literatureRenaissanceEnglandRhetoric, RenaissanceEnglandElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.English languageRhetoric.Disguise in literature.Characters and characteristics in literature.RenaissanceRhetoric, Renaissance820.927Davis Lloyd1959-2005,934493MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455472703321Guise and disguise2195713UNINA