Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski

Group Identity in the Renaissance World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that new groups and radically new concepts of group identity emerged throughout the world during the Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781107003606
• ISBN-10: 1107003601
• Artikelnr.: 32878022

Autorenporträt

Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin, and an Affiliate of the university's Program in Comparative Literature as well as the South Asia Institute. A specialist in the history of subjectivity and group-identity formation, she is the author of Old Masters, New Subjects: Early Modern and Poststructuralist Theories of Will, as well as numerous essays on medieval and Renaissance authors, and on the history and practice of literary theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the group and the individual: recollecting Burckhardt's Renaissance
1. Lacoön: the group as a work of art
2. Of cannibals and caraíbas: the group as a mouth
3. Utopia: the prenascent group
4. The Buddha's tooth relic: the group mystery
5. Hamlet's machine: the inorganic group
6. The animal hospitals of Gujarat: the collective unbound
Conclusion: post-Freudian thoughts on the future history of groups.