Thomas More's Responsio ad Lutherum and the Fictions of Humanist Polemic
In the Responsio ad Lutherum, Thomas More employs a litany of textual and literary strategies to complicate and obscure his association with the work. Fictional personae in both versions of the polemic depict varying degrees of collaboration, just as continuous verbatim quotation, the use of fonts,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
2001
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2001, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 743-764 |
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| Summary: | In the Responsio ad Lutherum, Thomas More employs a litany of textual and literary strategies to complicate and obscure his association with the work. Fictional personae in both versions of the polemic depict varying degrees of collaboration, just as continuous verbatim quotation, the use of fonts, and the implementation of marginal glosses create a polyphony of textual voices. The many collaborative features of the Responsio do not, however, efface More's connection to the tract so much as substantiate it with the same ambivalent gestures of proprietorship and disavowal that have, from the earliest edition of the Utopia (1516), characterized More's authorial stance. These paradoxical gestures reveal the degree to which More evokes collaborative milieus in an effort to indirectly persuade his readers and preemptively defend himself from possible attack. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2671510 |