Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400-1700

by Francesco Venturi

This volume investigates the various ways in which writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves, across early modern Europe. A multiplicity of self-commenting modes, ranging from annotations to explicatory prose to prefaces to separate critical texts and exemplifying a variety of literary genres, are subjected to analysis. Self-commentaries are more than just an external apparatus: they direct and control...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004346864
• ISBN13: 9789004346864
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"