Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts: The Force of Character

ISBN-13: 9780198714163 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 496 str.

Douglas S. Pfeiffer

Recenzje

Force of Character challenges us to reconsider acquiescing too easily in arguments for the death of the author. It invites us instead to reflect on how the related reading and writing practices of early modernity, especially through their prefatory and other paratextual materials, tether authors' characters and intentions not only to their words but to the highly individualized, ethically inflected literary styles and agendas their words underwrite.

O autorze

Douglas S. Pfeiffer is Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University. He received his PhD from Columbia University's English and Comparative Literature Department and has taught at Columbia, Barnard College, The Cooper Union, and The University of California, Irvine. His research centers on Renaissance humanism, history of the book, and early modern poetry.