Property Law in Renaissance Literature

ISBN-13: 9783631541333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 226 str.

Daniela Carpi

Spis treści

Contents: Daniela Carpi: Introduction - Richard H. Weisberg: Nietzsche's Hermeneutics: Good and Bad Interpreters of Texts - Ida Mastrorosa: Comic Plots and Property Law in Plautus's Trinummus: Humanistic and Renaissance Reflections - Marco Cavina: Rational Animal by Participation. Images of Patriarchal Power from Ariosto to Tasso - Luisa Avellini: Property and Inheritance in the Renaissance novella: from Arienti's Porretane to Bandello's Novelle - Jean Paul Pittion: Land Rhetoric and Ideology in Sir John Davies's Report on the Case of Tanistry (1615) - Ian Ward: The King's Great Matter: Shakespeare, Patriarchy and the Question of Succession - Giuseppina Restivo: To Have and Have not in Shakespeare: Patrimonial Questions in «As you like it» - Maurizio Pedrazza Gorlero: Macbeth, or the Question of Dominion - Richard Cave: Patrilineal Law and the Plays of Ben Jonson - Daniela Carpi: Person and Property in Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - Géraldine Cazals: From Law to Literature: Guillaume de La Perrière's Intellectual Path - Giovanni Rossi: «De l'affection des pères aux enfants»: Sentimental Bonds and Juridical Bonds in Montaigne, Essais, II, 8 - Adam Gearey: The Voice of Dominium - Property, Possession and Renaissance Figures in The Cantos of Ezra Pound - Peter J. Alscher/Richard H. Weisberg: King James and an Obsession with The Merchant of Venice.

O autorze

The Editor: Daniela Carpi is Professor of English Literature at the University of Verona. Her fields of research are: Renaissance Literature, Postmodern Novel, Law and Literature, Literature and Science. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, in the steering committee of the Italian National Association for English Studies (AIA) and is a member of the Association for Comparative Studies and of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).