The absence of grace

A study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two sixteenth-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa's Il Galateo (1558). The book focuses on the way the Libro del Cortegiano and Il Galateo cope with and represent the interaction between changes of elite culture and the changing construction of masculine identity in early modern Europe. More specifically, it connects questions of male fantasy and masculine identity to questions about the authority and reliability of narrators, and shows how these questions surface in narratorial attitudes toward socioeconomic rank or class, political power, and gender.

שנה

2000

שפה

English

הוצאה

Stanford University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

499

ISBN

9780804779869

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata