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  1. The Renaissance dialogue
    literary dialogue in its social and political contexts, Castiglione to Galileo
    Author: Cox, Virginia
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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... more

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    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

     
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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511895715
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    RVK Categories: IU 2500 ; IU 3910
    Series: Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 2
    Subjects: Dialogues, Italian / History and criticism; Italian literature / 16th century / History and criticism; Italian literature / 17th century / History and criticism; Renaissance / Italy; Renaissance; Literatur; Dialog; Italienisch
    Other subjects: Castiglione, Baldassare (1478-1529)
    Scope: 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages)
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    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 uses of the 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