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Hollow Men: Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy

Hollow Men: Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy

Gaylard, Susan

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Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesItalian History

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ISBN10: 0823251918
ISBN13: 9780823251919
Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
Published: Mar 20 2013
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdisciplinary analyses show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about self-presentation, ultimately contributing to a new awareness of representation as representation.

Hollow Men shows that the Renaissance questioning of interiority derived from a visual ideal, the monument that was the basis of teachings about imitation. In fact, the decline of exemplary pedagogy and the emergence of modern masculine subjectivity were well underway in the mid-fifteenth century, and these changes were hastened by the rapid development of the printed image.

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