Project: Early modern poethood and selfhood. The representation of the urban individual in Eduard de Dene's 'Testament Rhetoricael'

2009-10-01 – 2015-09-30

Abstract

This project offers a reading of the Testament Rhetoricael [Rhetorical Testament] (1562) of the Bruges poet and playwright Eduard de Dene (1505- between 1576 and 1579) as a representation of its author’s individuality and ‘selfhood’. It will do this by confronting the collection to a number of theories about the ‘self’.