John C. Leeds

Renaissance Syntax and Subjectivity (eBook, ePUB)

Ideological Contents of Latin and the Vernacular in Scottish Prose Chronicles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

John Leeds examines the choice made by Renaissance chroniclers between Latin and the vernacular, in light of some central concerns of current literary theory. He extends the boundaries of existing critical literature on early modern "subjectivity" to include the grammatical subject, showing how its disposition, in the radically dissimilar syntactic systems of Latin and Scots, conditions the way in which "the subject" (i.e., the human individual) is conceived in the writing of history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351904339
• Artikelnr.: 47954512

Autorenporträt

John Leeds is Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, Davie Campus, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Sleeping beauty: accusative case, passive voice, and the subject of production
Against the vernacular: Ciceronian formalism and the problem of the individual
From the ground up: matter, spirit, and the linguistic sign in John Lesley's Chronicles of Stewart Scotland
Corpus Mysticum: the status of universals in John Mair's Chronicle of Greater Britain
Afterword
Bibliography
Index.