Authority and Representation in Early Modern Discourse

by Robert Weimann and Professor Robert Weimann

Book Overview

This path-breaking study attempts to view both Reformation discourse and Renaissance fiction (and, by implication, the Elizabethan theater) as constitutive of an early modern paradigm change in the authorization of discourse. The profound crisis in traditional locations of authority, affecting religious, political, and poetic courts of appeal, is traced as interactive with an unprecedented proliferation of both signifying practices and communicative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801851904
• ISBN13: 9780801851902
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages