Renaissance Go-Betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

by Andreas Höfele (Editor), Werner von Koppenfels (Editor)

Overview

The volume analyses some of the travelling and bridge-building activities that went on in Renaissance Europe, mainly but not exclusively across the Channel, true to Montaigne's epoch-making program of describing 'the passage'. Its emphasis on Anglo-Continental relations ensures a firm basis in English literature, but its particular appeal lies in its European point of view, and in the perspectives it opens up into other areas of early modern culture, such as pictorial art, philosophy, and economics. The multiple implications of the go-between concept make for structured diversity.

The chapters of this book are arranged in three stages. Part 1 ('Mediators') focuses on influential go-betweens, both as groups, like the translators, and as individual mediators. The second part of this book ('Mediations') is concerned with individual acts of mediation, and with the 'mental topographies' they presuppose, reflect and redraw in their turn. Part 3 ('Representations') looks at the role of exemplary intermediaries and the workings of mediation represented on the early modern English stage.

Key features

• High quality anthology on phenomena of cultural exchange in the Renaissance era
• With contributions by outstanding international experts

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110182156
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	03/16/2005
Series:	spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature , #2
Edition description:	Reprint 2011
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Andreas Höfele und Werner von Koppenfels sind Professoren für Englische Literatur an der Universität München. Andreas Höfele ist zugleich Präsident der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft und Leiter der Shakespeare-Forschungsbibliothek München.

Andreas Höfele is Professor of English at Munich University and a member of the Heidelberg and Bavarian Academies of Science and President of the German Shakespeare Society.

Werner von Koppenfels is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Munich University and a member of the German Academy of Language and Literature.

Editorial Reviews

"Ein Sammelband, der den Austausch der Kulturen thematisiert ohne deren Besonderheiten zu vergessen, der methodisch das Aufeinanderzugehen postuliert und praktiziert; kurz: der den Weg zu Uniformität und Selbstisolation begrüßenswerterweise gerade vermeidet. Ihm seien viele Leser und Nachahmer gewünscht."
Helge Nowak in: Anglia 1/2007

"This latter grouping of essays, like the majoritiy in the volume as a whole, are subtly mounted, forward-looking and complex, bringing to a conclusion a collection that ist readable and versatile as it is enlightening and original."
Mark Thornton Burnett in: Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2007

"There is much to learn from the individual articles as well as from the overall volume."
Gesa Stedman in: Renaissance Quarterly 2006

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