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Dancing around the well : the circulation of commonplaces in Renaissance humanism
- Title
- Dancing around the well : the circulation of commonplaces in Renaissance humanism / by Eric M. MacPhail.
- Author
- MacPhail, Eric
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
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- Description
- 170 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a process of reanimation and revitalization, where frozen sayings thaw out and come to life, or conversely as a process of immobilization and incrustation that petrifies tradition. The paradigmatic figure for this process is the proverbial dance around the well, which expresses both the danger and the compulsion of borrowed speech.
- Series Statement
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 0920-8607 ; volume 232
- Uniform Title
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 232.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : dancing around the well -- In the beginning there was chaos -- A gem in its setting -- Words frozen and thawed -- Rhapsody in prose -- The mosaic of speech -- The universal library -- In a Roman mirror -- Conclusion : emptying the well.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-3127
- ISBN
- 9789004274396
- 9004274391
- 9789004277151 (canceled/invalid)
- 9004277153 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014027279
- OCLC
- 884242739
- Author
- MacPhail, Eric, author.
- Title
- Dancing around the well : the circulation of commonplaces in Renaissance humanism / by Eric M. MacPhail.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 0920-8607 ; volume 232Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 232.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-3127