19.2426, Books: Ling&Literature: Cox

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Title: The Renaissance Dialogue 
Subtitle: Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to
Galileo
 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 2  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Virginia Cox

Paperback: ISBN:  9780521069663 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 17.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521069663 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 32.99


Abstract:

This is a full-length study of the use of the dialogue form in Italy from
the early sixteenth century until Galileo. Drawing on a wide range of
sources, it examines the characteristics which determined the genre's
unrivalled popularity in the period as a vehicle for polemic, debate,
technical exposition and comic drama. More than simply an account of the
development of an individual literary genre, however, the book is a
contribution to the broader social and cultural history of the period. As
representations of conversation, miniature dramas of persuasion, the
dialogues of the Italian Renaissance constitute an extraordinarily rich -
and largely untapped - source of information about the ideals and practice
of communication in the early modern age. 
				
>From the hardback review: 'This book is of enormous value to Renaissance
literary and social historians.'   -The Times Higher Education Supplement 



1. Problems of method; 
2. History and invention in the dialogue; 
3. The uses of the dialogue in sixteenth-century Italy: Celebration and
control; 
4. The use of dialogue in sixteenth-century Italy: Commerce and courtesy; 
5. Castiglione's Cortegiano: The dialogue as a drama of doubt; 
6. The changing form of the Italian renaissance dialogue; 
7. The theory and practice of the dialogue in counter-Reformation Italy; 
8. From the 'girevole strada' to the straight and narrow path; 
9. From the open dialogue to the closed book. 


Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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