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Title: Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xxxii,269 pp. Minor rubbing. Some light binding soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Typology & Hagiography: Typologies of the Renaissance. Burkhardt,Warburg, and Benjamin; The Denouement of Martyrdom: The Symptom in Psychoanalysis & Hagiography; The Novella & Its Renewals: The Gleaner's Prologue: Chaucer's Legend of Ruth; New Wine in Old Skins: The Decameron & Secular Literature; Saints on trial;: The Genre of Measure for Measure; Iconographies of Secular Literature: Typological Designs: Creation, Iconoclasm, & Nature in Vasari's 'Lives of the Artists'; 'The Winter's Tale' & the Gods: Iconographies of Idolatry.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Renaissance, Literature, History of Religion, Christian Saints, Hagiography, Typology, Theology,

Price: US$ 59.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS007797I