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| ISBN: | 9781400863310
1400863317
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Cover; Contents.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Writers in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered during reading or conversation, but few critics have fully appreciated the formative influence this activity had on humanism. Focusing on the discursive practices of ""gathering"" textual fragments and ""framing"" or forming, arranging, and assimilating them, Mary Crane shows how keeping commonplace books made up the English humanists' central transaction with antiquity and provided an influential model for authorial practice and authoritative self-fashioning. She thereby rev.
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| Other form: | Print version: Crane, Mary Thomas. Framing Authority : Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
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