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- Title
The 2006 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: A Postmodern Renaissance?
- Authors
Starn, Randolph
- Abstract
The place of the Renaissance in historical narratives of modernity was problematic long before recent bouts of dismissal, denial, or indifference. However, the idea is a hardy survivor and the old phoenix is at it again. Has the Renaissance gained a new, postmodern lease on life? Plurality, discontinuity, and contingency are hallmarks of that protean, much-contested label and of current Renaissance studies, not to mention the Renaissance boom in pop culture. Is this a mirror reflecting only our own preconceptions or a window that discloses a Renaissance that was never convincingly modern in the first place? What are the implications, one way or another, for the present and future of Renaissance studies?
- Subjects
EUROPE; MODERN history; HUMANISM; HISTORIOGRAPHY; SOCIAL history; POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy); RENAISSANCE aesthetics; RENAISSANCE
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ren.2007.0103