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Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400â1700
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 62
Editor:
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 reception of the primary text, thus affecting notions of authorship and readership. With the writer understood as a potentially very influential and often tendentious interpreter of their own work, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on pre-modern and modern forms of critical self-consciousness, self-representation, and self-validation.
Contributors are Harriet Archer, Gilles Bertheau, Carlo Caruso, Jeroen De Keyser, Russell Ganim, Joseph Harris, Ian Johnson, Richard Maber, Martin McLaughlin, John OâBrien, Magdalena Ożarska, Federica Pich, Brian Richardson, Els Stronks, and Colin Thompson.
Contributors are Harriet Archer, Gilles Bertheau, Carlo Caruso, Jeroen De Keyser, Russell Ganim, Joseph Harris, Ian Johnson, Richard Maber, Martin McLaughlin, John OâBrien, Magdalena Ożarska, Federica Pich, Brian Richardson, Els Stronks, and Colin Thompson.
Francesco Venturi, PhD (2012, University of Siena), is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Oslo. He has published widely in the field of early modern and twentieth-century literature and culture, including the monograph Genesi e storia della âtrilogiaâ di Andrea Zanzotto (ETS, 2016).
"Its wide-ranging aspect is what makes this work thought provoking, demanding, and well worth the effort."
Barbara A. Goodman, Clayton State University, in Seventeenth-Century News 78.1-2, pp. 59-63
"[a] splendid collection of essays on authorial self-commentary [...] The fertile insights and extensive bibliographies that mark every contribution to the volume make it required reading for historians of Renaissance and Reformation literature."
William J. Kennedy, Cornell University, in Renaissance and Reformation 43.1, pp. 294-296
Barbara A. Goodman, Clayton State University, in Seventeenth-Century News 78.1-2, pp. 59-63
"[a] splendid collection of essays on authorial self-commentary [...] The fertile insights and extensive bibliographies that mark every contribution to the volume make it required reading for historians of Renaissance and Reformation literature."
William J. Kennedy, Cornell University, in Renaissance and Reformation 43.1, pp. 294-296
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Editor
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
âFrancesco Venturi
1 Albertiâs Commentarium to His First Literary Work: Self-Commentary as Self-Presentation in the Philodoxeos
âMartin McLaughlin
2 Elucidation and Self-Explanation in Filelfoâs Marginalia
âJeroen De Keyser
3 Vernacular Self-Commentary during Medieval Early Modernity: Reginald Pecock and Gavin Douglas
âIan Johnson
4 On the Threshold of Poems: a Paratextual Approach to the Narrative/Lyric Opposition in Italian Renaissance Poetry
âFederica Pich
5 Self-Commentary on Language in Sixteenth-Century Italian Prefatory Letters
âBrian Richardson
6 âAll Outward and on Showâ: Montaigneâs External Glosses
âJohn OâBrien
7 Companions in Folly: Genre and Poetic Practice in Five Elizabethan Anthologies
âHarriet Archer
8 The Journey of the Soul: The Prose Commentaries on His Own Poems by St John of the Cross
âColin P. Thompson
9 Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Annotation and Self-Exegesis in La Ceppède
âRussell Ganim
10 Can a Poet be âMaster of [his] owne Meaningâ? George Chapman and the Paradoxes of Authorship
âGilles Bertheau
11 Critical Failures: Corneille Observes His Spectators
âJoseph Harris
12 Self-Criticism, Self-Assessment, and Self-Affirmation: The Case of the (Young) Author in Early Modern Dutch Literature
âEls Stronks
13 Reading the Margins: The Uses of Authorial Side Glosses in Anna StanisÅawskaâs Transaction (1685)
âMagdalena Ożarska
14 Mockery and Erudition: Alessandro Tassoniâs Secchia rapita and Francesco Rediâs Bacco in Toscana
âCarlo Caruso
Afterword
âRichard Maber
Index Nominum
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Editor
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
âFrancesco Venturi
1 Albertiâs Commentarium to His First Literary Work: Self-Commentary as Self-Presentation in the Philodoxeos
âMartin McLaughlin
2 Elucidation and Self-Explanation in Filelfoâs Marginalia
âJeroen De Keyser
3 Vernacular Self-Commentary during Medieval Early Modernity: Reginald Pecock and Gavin Douglas
âIan Johnson
4 On the Threshold of Poems: a Paratextual Approach to the Narrative/Lyric Opposition in Italian Renaissance Poetry
âFederica Pich
5 Self-Commentary on Language in Sixteenth-Century Italian Prefatory Letters
âBrian Richardson
6 âAll Outward and on Showâ: Montaigneâs External Glosses
âJohn OâBrien
7 Companions in Folly: Genre and Poetic Practice in Five Elizabethan Anthologies
âHarriet Archer
8 The Journey of the Soul: The Prose Commentaries on His Own Poems by St John of the Cross
âColin P. Thompson
9 Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Annotation and Self-Exegesis in La Ceppède
âRussell Ganim
10 Can a Poet be âMaster of [his] owne Meaningâ? George Chapman and the Paradoxes of Authorship
âGilles Bertheau
11 Critical Failures: Corneille Observes His Spectators
âJoseph Harris
12 Self-Criticism, Self-Assessment, and Self-Affirmation: The Case of the (Young) Author in Early Modern Dutch Literature
âEls Stronks
13 Reading the Margins: The Uses of Authorial Side Glosses in Anna StanisÅawskaâs Transaction (1685)
âMagdalena Ożarska
14 Mockery and Erudition: Alessandro Tassoniâs Secchia rapita and Francesco Rediâs Bacco in Toscana
âCarlo Caruso
Afterword
âRichard Maber
Index Nominum
Academics and students interested in early modern literature and culture, comparative literature, classics, history of the book, literary theory, poetics, literary criticism, issues of authorship and readership, reception studies, and exegesis. Keywords: Renaissance, exegesis, interpretation, classics, canon, authorship, readership, poetics, reception, paratext, literary criticism, literary theory, self-fashioning.