TY - BOOK AU - Bearden,Elizabeth B. TI - The emblematics of the self: ekphrasis and identity in Renaissance imitations of Greek romance SN - 9781442696143 AV - PN56 .E435 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Toronto [Ont. PB - University of Toronto Press KW - European literature KW - Renaissance, 1450-1600 KW - History and criticism KW - Greek influences KW - Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature KW - Ekphrasis KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Chapter One The Romance Globe: Why the Renaissance Repainted Greek Romance --; Chapter Two Converso Convertida: Cross-dressed Narration and Ekphrastic Interpretation in Leucippe and Clitophon and Clareo y Florisea --; Chapter Three Amazon Eyes and Shifting Emblems in Sidney's Greek Arcadia --; Chapter Four Painting Counterfeit Canvases: Heliodoran Pictographs, American Lienzos, and European Imaginings of the Barbarian in Cervantes' Persiles --; Chapter Five Pictura Locorum: Heliodoran Hieroglyphs and Anglo-African Identity in Barclay's Argenis --; Chapter Six "We are all picturd in that Piece": Lovers, Persians, Tartars, and the "Tottering" Romance Globe in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania --; Conclusions; 2; b N2 - The Emblematics of the Self breaks new ground in understanding hegemonic and cosmopolitan European conceptions of the "other," as well as new possibilities for early modern identities, in an increasingly global Renaissance UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=682843&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -