Sleeping Beauty, or In Praise of the Passive Voice: Renaissance Chronicles and the Subject of Production.
The article presents a philological essay exploring the interaction between human subjectivity, being the state of autonomous identity, and agency, or physical activity in society. The author explores the manifestations of this dialectic within the contrasting grammars of Humanist Neo-Latin and Scot...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 104; no. 4; pp. 467 - 510 |
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University of Chicago Press
May2007
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| Sumario: | The article presents a philological essay exploring the interaction between human subjectivity, being the state of autonomous identity, and agency, or physical activity in society. The author explores the manifestations of this dialectic within the contrasting grammars of Humanist Neo-Latin and Scots-English vernacular in 16th century literature. The pervasive use of the fable of sleeping beauty is illustrated throughout the work. |
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