Idle Pursuits

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  • Idle Pursuits Book Detail

  • Author : Virginia Krause
  • Release Date : 2003
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 244
  • ISBN 13 : 9780874138351
  • File Size : 9,9 MB
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Idle Pursuits by Virginia Krause PDF Summary

Book Description: "Throughout this study, idleness is shown to be a key element of self-presentation beginning with the figure of the idle aristocrat. The extravagant display of a life of leisure made Gilles de Rais the icon of aristocratic idleness. But even the hardworking humanist was anxious to assume a studied posture of idleness. If both figures were eager to display idleness, it was because oisivete was an important source of what modern theorists have termed symbolic capital. Finally, the Renaissance also saw the birth of a new figure of the "idler": the consumer of leisure. For it was leisure itself along with chivalric and amorous adventure that was consumed by the readers of the popular Amadis series. At once a commodity and form of capital, idleness (otium) clearly belonged to the realm of social exchanges ostensibly reserved for affairs (negotium)."--BOOK JACKET.

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