《The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature》是1999年出版的圖書，作者是Posner, David M.。
基本介紹
- 外文名：The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
- 作者：Posner, David M.
- 出版時間：1999年11月
- ISBN：9780521661812
內容簡介
This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courtesy manuals, through Montaigne and Bacon, to the literature of the Grand Siecle, David Posner examines the structures of public identity in the period. He focuses on the developing tensions between, on the one hand, literary or imaginative representations of 'nobility' and, on the other, the increasingly problematic historical position of the nobility themselves. These tensions produce a transformation in the notion of the noble self as a performance, and eventually doom court society and its theatrical mode of self-presentation. Situated at the intersection of rhetorical and historical theories of interpretation, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of the role of literature both in analysing and in shaping social identity.
