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Petrarch's humanism and the care of the self /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Petrarch's humanism and the care of the self // Gur Zak.
remainder title:	Petrarch's Humanism & the Care of the Self
Author:	Zak, Gur,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 179 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Humanism in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511730337
ISBN:	9780511730337 (ebook)

Petrarch's humanism and the care of the self /
Zak, Gur,1975-

Petrarch's humanism and the care of the self /Petrarch's Humanism & the Care of the SelfGur Zak. - 1 online resource (x, 179 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The indeterminate self : writing, desire, and temporality in Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta -- The crisis of the narrative self -- Petrarch's humanism and the ethics of care of the self -- Ovid, Augustine, and the limits of the ethics of care of the self.

Petrarch was one of the founding fathers of Renaissance humanism, yet the nature and significance of his ideas are still widely debated. In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self. Zak argues that both are defined by Petrarch's idea of care for the self. Overcome by a strong sense of fragmentation, Petrarch turned to the ancient idea that philosophy can bring harmony and wholeness to the soul through the use of spiritual exercises in the form of writing. Examining his vernacular poetry and his Latin works from both literary and historical perspectives, Zak explores Petrarch's attempts to use writing as a spiritual exercise, how his spiritual techniques absorbed and transformed ancient and medieval traditions of writing, and the tensions that arose from his efforts to care for the self through writing.

ISBN: 9780511730337 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

800925
Petrarca, Francesco,
1304-1374--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

578736
Humanism in literature.

LC Class. No.: PQ4542 / .Z35 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 851/.1

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