Open Access"Afford This Art No Greater Miracle?- The Fragmented Self of the Renaissance Man in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Author(s) -
Paushali Bhattacharya
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
smart moves journal ijellh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-4406
pISSN - 2582-3574
DOI - 10.24113/ijellh.v7i8.9667
Subject(s) - the renaissance , miracle , yesterday , civilization , modernity , epitome , conviction , art , literature , hero , philosophy , fable , identity (music) , id, ego and super ego , art history , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , history , psychology , theology , law , epistemology , physics , archaeology , astronomy , political science
“Yesterday I was clever, so Iwanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I amchanging myself.”?Rumi“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not bornonce and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges themover and over again to give birth to themselves.”?Gabriel García Márquez,Love in the Time of Choler a The concept of identity vis a vis the Renaissance has been often explored, as the impression of the “ Renaissance Man” as the epitome of modernity and civilisation has been upheld and immortalized through popular discourse down the ages.Selfhood as a notion has been inextricably linked with the idea of the Renaissance ever since the inception of the term: