Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature Hardcover - 1996
by Julia Reinhard Lupton
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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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- Title Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature
- Author Julia Reinhard Lupton
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, STANFORD, CA
- Date 1996-12-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780804726436 / 0804726434
- Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.81 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.06 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95050474
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.933
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