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Afterlives of the Saints - Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature (Hardcover)
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Afterlives of the Saints - Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature (Hardcover)
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This book examines the ways in which the literary genre of
hagiography and the hermeneutical paradigm of Biblical typology
together entered into the construction of "the Renaissance" as a
canon and period. It is not about saints' lives in themselves, as
either literary or historical phenomena, but instead addresses the
structural effects of hagiography in the secular literature of the
Renaissance.
The central texts analyzed--Boccaccio's Decameron, Vasari's Lives
of the Artists, and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and The
Winter's Tale--all manifest key moments and aspects in the creation
of a Renaissance canon for the post-Renaissance world. The epochal
significance of these works, saturated in religious allusions as
well as scenes of profane life and classical art, is shown to rest
in neither the normative piety nor the subversive heresy of any of
these writers, but rather in their crafting of myths of modernity
precisely out of the religious material that formed such an
important part of their daily vocabularies.
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