Renaissances
Visualizing Self-Fashioning
We discussed the introduction to Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning yesterday. Then, each section formed groups of 4-6 students and drew out a variety of ways to visualize the self-fashioning process, as described by Greenblatt. Here are the results of our experiment – note the heavy featuring of aliens and authority (represented in many cases by book, crown, and cross to correspond to Protestant Christianity, sovereignty, and Roman Catholicism) in many of these drawings. In this drawing, the Read more…