LEADER 04473nam 2200841 450 001 9910455472703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-01184-7 010 $a9786612011849 010 $a1-4426-7557-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442675575 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004097 035 $a(EBL)3251215 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000298065 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12061468 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000298065 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10343592 035 $a(PQKB)10406426 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001287619 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12542763 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001287619 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11291264 035 $a(PQKB)11258927 035 $a(CaPaEBR)417517 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600233 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3251215 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671576 035 $a(DE-B1597)464519 035 $a(OCoLC)979579510 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442675575 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3293410 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671576 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257281 035 $a(OCoLC)244766926 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004097 100 $a20160922h19931993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGuise and disguise $erhetoric and characterization in the English Renaissance /$fLloyd Davis 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1993. 210 4$dİ1993 215 $a1 online resource (228 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-3618-X 311 $a0-8020-2956-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Disguise in the Renaissance -- $tChapter One: The Rhetoric of Characterization -- $tChapter Two: Political Acts -- $tChapter Three: The Allegorical Subject -- $tChapter Four: The Figure of Woman -- $tEpilogue: Tragedy and Disguise -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aDisguise 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish language$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xRhetoric 606 $aDisguise in literature 606 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature 606 $aRenaissance$zEngland 606 $aRhetoric, Renaissance$zEngland 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish language$xRhetoric. 615 0$aDisguise in literature. 615 0$aCharacters and characteristics in literature. 615 0$aRenaissance 615 0$aRhetoric, Renaissance 676 $a820.927 700 $aDavis$b Lloyd$f1959-2005,$0934493 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455472703321 996 $aGuise and disguise$92195713 997 $aUNINA