ENGL 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Codependency, Literary Theory, Episteme
29 Mar 2017
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Steven greenblatt: wrote a book: renaissance self fashioning. 1st attempt on how early modern period generated ideas of concept of self. 1st idea: self is a form of textuality. Extraordinary explosion of creativity that focuses on text. 2nd idea: increased self consciousness about how you create self, artful construction. Can manipulate and create self that has agency in world and operates successfully in that world: prudent accommodation or even deception can be virtues if get u to a better place. Early modern sense of word changes what we are saying. In this period, no: greenblatt"s sense of what identity is produced from conflict. Self fashioning occurs when have an encounter with authorityhave to make decisions in context of that encounter. To sustain the illusion that i am the principle authority of my own identity : tug of war want to appear to have autonomy over identity, even most substantial of egos based on deception.
