Rhetoric and Delegation in Petrarca and Boethius

With Remarks on Cicero, Augustine, Dante, Boccaccio
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-3-11-171132-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 960 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

The comparatist study at hand aims at seconding and supplementing the (apparently plausible) observation that diachronically diverse processes of delegation may well amount to a of human culture—the latter being a Blumenbergian thesis, taken up and tied in with for heuristic purposes herein.

In so doing, the focus happens to be on works of world literature: central events in (Moses, Paul), as well as Cicero’s , parts of Vergil’s , of Augustine’s and , the first book of the Boethian , as well as salient aspects pertaining to Dante’s and —all with respect to Petrarca’s , specifically its proem. Said focus is complemented by a detailed commentary on the three days of the dialog in question. The study concludes with a meditation on delegation and contingency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mayfield, DS

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

DS Mayfield , Leipzig University, Germany.