The Absence of Grace: Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books

by Harry Berger Jr. and Harry Berger

Book Overview

The Absence of Grace is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two sixteenth-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo (1558). The interpretive method is a form of close reading the author describes as reconstructed old New Criticism, that is, close reading conditioned by an interest in and analysis of the historical changes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739056
• ISBN13: 9780804739054
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"