Autocomunicazione e life writing. Considerazioni sulle biografie collettive inglesi della prima età moderna
Keywords:
autocommunication, life writing, biography, collections, early modern age
Abstract
Life writing constitutes a valuable resource for the scholar of English literature and culture of the early modern age. Recent analysis of the production and circulation of biographical material has brought to light a relational perception of the self, which mainly feeds into the participatory and performative aspects of early modern life writing. Specifically, this essay focuses on the cumulative conception of life as it emerges from the prefaces to the collections of English biographies published between the 16th and the 17th century, some examples of which will be examined. In this regard, the perspective of cultural semiotics will allow us to detect the expression of the self-descriptive and autocommunicative processes of the early modern English culture, especially when taking into account the increase in the circulation of collective biographies during the seventeenth century. Moreover, this theoretical framework allows us to bring to light some particular features of early modern English life writing showing affinity with the use of biography and the conception of the self in the digital age.
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Eckerle, Julie A. (2013), Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen’s Life Writing, Farnham, Ashgate Publishing.
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Mann Phillips, Margaret (1967), Erasmus on his Times: A Shortened Version of the ‘Adages’ of Erasmus, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Mayer, Thomas F.; Woolf, David R. (1995), The Rhetorics of Life Writing in Early Modern Europe. Forms of Biography from Cassandra Fedele to Louis XIV, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press.
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McKeon, Michael (2008), ‘Biography, Fiction, and the Emergence of “Identity” in Eighteenth Century Britain’, in Sharpe, Kevin; Zwicker Stephen N. (eds.), Writing Lives, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 339-355.
Novak, Julia (2017) ‘Experiments in life-writing: Introduction’, in Novak, Julia, Experiments in Life Writing, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 1-36.
Nussbaum, Felicity A. (1989), The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth Century England, Baltimore-London, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Ojamaa Marija; Torop, Peeter (2015), ‘Transmediality of Cultural Autocommunication’, International Journal of Cultural Studies 18 (1), 61-78.
Plutarch (ed. Goodwin, William W. 1874), Plutarch’s Morals, Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, Cambridge, Press of John Wilson and son.
Popovič, Anton (2006) [1975], La Scienza della Traduzione: Aspetti Metodologici; la Comunicazione Traduttiva, Milano, Hoepli.
Rak, Julie (ed.) (2005), Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions, Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Renders, Hans; de Haan, Binne (eds.) (2014), Theoretical Discussions of Biography. Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing, Leiden, Brill.
Renders, Hans; de Haan, Binne (eds.) (2016), The Biographical Turn, London, Routledge.
Rhodes, Neil; Sawday John (eds.) (2000), The Renaissance Computer. Knowledge and Technology in the First Age of Print, London-New York, Routledge.
Ross, Trevor (1998), The Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century, Montreal-Kingston-Ithaca-London, McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Sedikides, Constantine; Gaertner, Lowell; O’Mara, Erin M. (2011), ‘Individual self, relational self, collective self: Hierarchical ordering of the tripartite self’, Psychological Studies 56 (1), 98-107.
Sharpe, Kevin; Zwicker, Steven N. (2008), Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Shelston, Alan (2017) [1977], Biography, London, Routledge.
Shuger, Debora (1999), ‘The “I” of the Beholder. Renaissance Mirrors and the Reflexive Mind’, in Fumerton, Patricia; Hunt, Simon (eds.), Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Skura, Meredith Anne (2008), Tudor Autobiography: Listening for Inwardness, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Smith, Sidonie; Watson, Julia (2001), Reading autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life narratives, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.
Smith, Sidonie; Watson, Julia (2017), Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith & Watson Autobiography Studies Reader, Ann Arbor, Michigan Publishing.
Smyth, Adam (2010), Autobiography in Early Modern England, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Stewart, Alan (2018), The Oxford History of Life Writing, Vol. II, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Tetz, Victor V.; Tetz, George V. (2020), ‘A new biological definition of life’, Biomolecular Concepts 11 (1), 1-6.
Torop, Peeter (2000), La Traduzione Totale, Milano, Hoepli.
Walkden, Andrea (2016), Private Lives Made Public: The Invention of Biography in Early Modern England, Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press.
White, Hayden (1973), Metahistory. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Baltimore-London, John Hopkins University Press.
White, Hayden (1987), The Content of the Form. Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, Baltimore-London, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Wolfe, Cary (2010), What is Posthumanism?, Minneapolis-London, Minnesota University Press.
Woolf, Virginia (1985) [1976], ‘A Sketch of the Past’, in Woolf, Virginia (ed. Schulkind, Jeanne), Moments of Being, San Diego-New York-London, HBJ Books, 61-160.
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2020-12-31
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Ledda, I. (2020). Autocomunicazione e life writing. Considerazioni sulle biografie collettive inglesi della prima età moderna. Rhesis. International Journal of Linguistics, Philology and Literature, 11(2), 67-85. https://doi.org/10.13125/rhesis/5696
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