Open AccessThe Pastime of Master F. J.
Author(s) -
Dale B. Billingsley
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
renaissance and reformation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2293-7374
pISSN - 0034-429X
DOI - 10.33137/rr.v29i3.11428
Subject(s) - adventure , rhetorical question , sort , reading (process) , power (physics) , linguistics , art , literature , computer science , art history , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , information retrieval
Characters in Gascoigne's "Adventures of Master F. J." (1573) use reading as a pastime by which they sort out or complicate their relationships with others; the novel's readers, for their pastime, recreate these relationships as they read the novel. These linguistic, rhetorical and social pastimes are moves in a serious game of access to power, and the "Adventures” is thus an ironic 'institute' for the transformation of the individual.