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Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature

Posted By: nebulae
Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature

Albert Russell Ascoli, "Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature"
English | ISBN: 080142870X, 0801481090 | 1993 | 328 pages | PDF | 6 MB

Machiavelli is known both for the brilliance of his own literary rhetorical performances and for his rejection of traditional humanist claims for the historical, ethical, and philosophical value of literature. This collection of eleven interdisciplinary essays, comprising eight by major American scholars along with three classic Italian pieces available for the first time in English, explores the place of the "literary" in Machiavelli's thought and writing and discusses Machiavelli's relation to radical changes in the statues of literature during the sixteenth century. Writings by historians as well as by literary critics are included.

The contributors treat Machiavelli's explicitly literary works–-such as Mandragola and Clizia–-and demonstrate how literary or rhetorical approaches can contribute to the understanding of such nonliterary texts as The Prince, the Discourses, and The Art of War. Taken together, the essays delineate Machiavelli's crucial and extremely complex relation to the process that led to the decline of literature from a mode of intellectual knowledge and ethical action to a set of Kantian "purposive objects without purpose".
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