Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature and culture; history of the reception of classical rhetoric, 13th to 16th centuries; gender history and women’s writing
Sixteenth & 17th-century literature & thought in Europe, especially France; the role played by various dimensions of language (eg concept-formation; tense-aspect) in the shaping of knowledge & belief.
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