Author: Snyder, Jon R.
Title: Writing the Scene of Speaking: Theories of Dialogue in the Late Italian Renaissance
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1989). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xi,297 pp, Some soil to dustwrapper.. Minor rubbing, some side-page-edge soil, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Problem of Dialogue in the Late Italian Renaissance; Putting Questions (in)to Language: Sigonio's Theory of Dialogue; Writing Under Pressure: Speroni & the Dialogical Mask; The Reasons for Asking: Castelvetro and Tasso on Philosophy and Fiction; Illusions of Difference: The Poetics and Pragmatics of Dialogue After Tasso.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Italian Literature, Late Renaissance, Dialogue Theory, 17th-Century, Authorship, L. Castelvetro, Carlo Sigonio, Torquato Tasso