Humanist techniques of self-formation around the quattrocento and nowadays Cover Image

Humanista énformálási technikák a quattrocento tájékán és napjainkban
Humanist techniques of self-formation around the quattrocento and nowadays

Author(s): Zoltán Csehy
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Jelenkor Alapítvány
Keywords: quattrocento; Beccadelli; Hermafroditus; humanist; poetry; institutionalization of self-representation; humanist poetical model; contemporary Hungarian poetry;

Summary/Abstract: In his lecture the translator of Antonio Beccadelli’s Hermafroditus focuses on the techniques of self-representation in the humatist poetical model primarily in the light of the institutionalization of contemporary system of readers’ requirements. What makes the text interesting is that it brings the described techniques into relation with the trend in contemporary Hungarian poetry that builds on role-play.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 321-328
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Hungarian