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This volume investigates the various ways in which writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves, across early modern Europe. A multiplicity of self-commenting modes, ranging from annotations to explicatory prose to prefaces to separate critical texts and exemplifying a variety of literary genres, are subjected to analysis. Self-commentaries are more than just an external apparatus: they direct and control reception of the primary text, thus affecting notions of authorship and readership. With the writer understood as a potentially very influential and often tendentious interpreter of their own work, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on pre-modern and modern forms of critical self-consciousness, self-representation, and self-validation.
Contributors are Harriet Archer, Gilles Bertheau, Carlo Caruso, Jeroen De Keyser, Russell Ganim, Joseph Harris, Ian Johnson, Richard Maber, Martin McLaughlin, John O'Brien, Magdalena Ożarska, Federica Pich, Brian Richardson, Els Stronks, and Colin Thompson.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Editor
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
Francesco Venturi
1 Alberti's Commentarium to His First Literary Work: Self-Commentary as Self-Presentation in the Philodoxeos
Martin McLaughlin
2 Elucidation and Self-Explanation in Filelfo's Marginalia
Jeroen De Keyser
3 Vernacular Self-Commentary during Medieval Early Modernity: Reginald Pecock and Gavin Douglas
Ian Johnson
4 On the Threshold of Poems: a Paratextual Approach to the Narrative/Lyric Opposition in Italian Renaissance Poetry
Federica Pich
5 Self-Commentary on Language in Sixteenth-Century Italian Prefatory Letters
Brian Richardson
6 'All Outward and on Show': Montaigne's External Glosses
John O'Brien
7 Companions in Folly: Genre and Poetic Practice in Five Elizabethan Anthologies
Harriet Archer
8 The Journey of the Soul: The Prose Commentaries on His Own Poems by St John of the Cross
Colin P. Thompson
9 Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Annotation and Self-Exegesis in La Ceppède
Russell Ganim
10 Can a Poet be 'Master of [his] owne Meaning'? George Chapman and the Paradoxes of Authorship
Gilles Bertheau
11 Critical Failures: Corneille Observes His Spectators
Joseph Harris
12 Self-Criticism, Self-Assessment, and Self-Affirmation: The Case of the (Young) Author in Early Modern Dutch Literature
Els Stronks
13 Reading the Margins: The Uses of Authorial Side Glosses in Anna Stanisławska's Transaction (1685)
Magdalena Ożarska
14 Mockery and Erudition: Alessandro Tassoni's Secchia rapita and Francesco Redi's Bacco in Toscana
Carlo Caruso
Afterword
Richard Maber
Index Nominum
