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035 _a(DE-B1597)528008
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040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aPA8518
_b.T5 1973
072 7 _aLIT019000
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082 0 4 _a878/.04/07
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aThompson, Geraldine
_eautore
245 1 0 _aUnder Pretext of Praise :
_bSatiric Mode in Erasmus' Fiction /
_cGeraldine Thompson.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1973]
264 4 _c©1973
300 _a1 online resource (216 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aHeritage
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520 _aThe last decade has seen a renewal of interest in the works of Erasmus. Much has been written on the educational and editorial writings of that great humanist of the northern Renaissance, but relatively little on his fictional work. This book deals with the fiction of Erasmus and what it contains of instruction and delight. The attention of the study is focused primarily on the four satiric works: The Praise of Folly, the Colloquies, Julius secundus exclusus, and Ciceronianus, although the author, in the process analyzing and appraising, looked for analogues and explanations in the educational exegetical works. Three aspects of Erasmus' throught are considered. The first is his insistence on man's capacity for betterment through good teaching -- the formal teaching of a preceptor, or the incidental teaching of a good satirist or storyteller. The second is his notion of what man is and to what end he is to be educated. (Man is, of course, bent to knowledge and virtue, but one cannot afford to be too simple in one's appraisal of Erasmus' moral emphases -- the moral life involves both doer and spectator and is strongly dependent on the thinking process, althrough not divorced from the act of willing, and, activated by faith and the grade of God, is never far removed from creed and devotion.)The third aspect is Erasmus' special use of irony -- an irony both dramatic and satiric -- subtle and various, and doubly pronges so that it punctures what it praises but also questions the too obvious alternative, and leaves the reader pondering the whereabouts of the right and the perimeters of truth. To "e the atuhor: 'It seems to me that the fictional works are the exempla that give life and specificity to the great theories of a great man, and a study of them should not be without interest.'
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aFiction
_xTechnique.
650 0 _aIrony in literature.
650 0 _aSatire, Latin (Medieval and modern)
_xHistory and criticism.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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