Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World
«This collection--the Introduction and the four parts--is scholarship at its best, bringing together politics, literature, history, and other disciplines, and is more than the sum of its parts.»
Jonathan Lockehart, Shandong University, Renaissance and Reformation
This interdisciplinary volume explores core emerging themes in the study of early modern literary-diplomatic relations, developing essential methods of analysis and theoretical approaches that will shape future research in the field. Les mer
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changes in the literary sphere on diplomatic culture. The literary sphere held such a central place because it gave diplomats the tools to negotiate the pervasive ambiguities of diplomacy; simultaneously literary depictions of diplomacy and international law provided genre-shaped places for cultural
reflection on the rapidly changing and expanding diplomatic sphere.
Translations exemplify the potential of literary texts both to provoke competition and to promote cultural convergence between political communities, revealing the existence of diplomatic third spaces in which ritual, symbolic, or written conventions and semantics converged despite particular oppositions and differences. The increasing public consumption of diplomatic material in Europe illuminates diplomatic and literary communities, and exposes the translocal, as well as the transnational,
geographies of literary-diplomatic exchanges. Diplomatic texts possessed symbolic capital. They were produced, archived, and even redeployed in creative tension with the social and ceremonial worlds that produced them. Appreciating the generic conventions of specific types of diplomatic texts can
radically reshape our interpretation of diplomatic encounters, just as exploring the afterlives of diplomatic records can transform our appreciation of the histories and literatures they inspired.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198835691
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«This collection--the Introduction and the four parts--is scholarship at its best, bringing together politics, literature, history, and other disciplines, and is more than the sum of its parts.»
Jonathan Lockehart, Shandong University, Renaissance and Reformation