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Renaissance Syntax and Subjectivity - Ideological Contents of Latin and the Vernacular in Scottish Prose Chronicles (Paperback)
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Renaissance Syntax and Subjectivity - Ideological Contents of Latin and the Vernacular in Scottish Prose Chronicles (Paperback)
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The relationship between Latin and the Scots vernacular in the
chronicle literature of 16th-century Scotland provides the topic
for this study. John Leeds here shows how the disposition of
grammatical subjects, in the radically dissimilar syntactic systems
of humanist neo-Latin and Scots, conditions the way in which "the
subject" (i.e., the human individual) and its actions are conceived
in the writing of history. In doing so, he extends the boundaries
of existing critical literature on early modern "subjectivity" to
include the subject of grammar, analyzing its incorporation into
narrative sentences and illuminating the ideological contents of
different systems for its deployment. Though focused on the
chronicles of Renaissance Scotland, the argument can in principle
be applied to the entire range of Latin-vernacular relations during
the early modern period. While examining the intellectual culture
of early modernity, Leeds also takes aim, at every stage of his
argument, at the semiotic and social-constructionist orthodoxies
that dominate the humanities today. Against the notion that human
subjects are "discursive constructs," he argues for the
subordination of discourse to realities, both material and
immaterial, that are external to language. As part of this
argument, he proposes a view of neo-Latin humanism as a resistance
to the onset of modernity, arguing that Latin prose provides
options (at once syntactic, ideological, and ontological) that
vernacular culture has, to its considerable detriment, foreclosed.
In sum, Leeds advocates a renewed and theoretically-informed
commitment to the humanism that the humanities themselves have been
at such pains, during the last scholarly generation, to depreciate.
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