Architectural Involutions

Author : Mimi Yiu
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780810129863

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Architectural Involutions by Mimi Yiu Pdf

Taking the reader on an inward journey from façades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority. As the English house underwent a process of inward folding, replacing a logic of central assembly with one of dissemination, the subject who negotiated this new scenography became a flashpoint of conflict in both domestic and theatrical arenas. The book launches from a matrix of related “platforms”—a term that in early modern usage denoted scaffolds, stages, and draftsmen’s sketches—to situate Alberti, Shakespeare, Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and visual change. Engaging theory with archival findings, Mimi Yiu reveals an emergent desire to perform subjectivity, to unfold an interior face to an admiring public.

Author : Jennifer C. Vaught
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513152

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Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser by Jennifer C. Vaught Pdf

Jennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber. The recurring figure of the body as a besieged castle in Shakespeare’s drama and Spenser’s allegory reveals that their works are mutually based on medieval architectural allegories exemplified by the morality play The Castle of Perseverance. Intertextual and analogous connections between the generically hybrid works of Shakespeare and Spenser demonstrate how they conceived of individuals not in isolation from the physical environment but in profound relation to it. This book approaches the interlacing of identity and place in terms of ecocriticism, posthumanism, cognitive theory, and Cicero’s art of memory. Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser examines figures of the permeable body as a fortified, yet vulnerable structure in Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, and Sonnets and in Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Complaints.

Author : Angela Vanhaelen,Bronwen Wilson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487544959

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Making Worlds by Angela Vanhaelen,Bronwen Wilson Pdf

Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology. The volume advances questions about the history of globalization by focusing on how the expansion of global transit offered possibilities for interactions that included the testing of local identities through inventive experimentation with new and various forms of culture. Case studies show how the imposition of European economic, religious, political, and military models on other parts of the world unleashed unprecedented forces of invention as institutionalized powers came up against the creativity of peoples, cultural practices, materials, and techniques of making. In doing so, Making Worlds offers an important rethinking of how early globalization inconsistently generated ongoing dynamics of making, unmaking, and remaking worlds.

Author : Heather Hirschfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191043451

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy by Heather Hirschfeld Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.

Author : Steve Hindle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192694737

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The Social Topography of a Rural Community by Steve Hindle Pdf

The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village: Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich archive of sources, including an occupational census, detailed estate maps, account books, private journals, and hundreds of deeds and wills, and employing a novel micro-spatial methodology, it reconstructs the life experience of some 780 inhabitants spread across 176 households. This offers a unique opportunity to visualize members of an English rural community as they responded to, and in turn initiated, changes in social and economic activity, making their own history on their own terms. In so doing the book brings to the fore the social, economic, and spatial lives of people who have been marginalized from conventional historical discourse, and offers an unusual level of detail relating to the spatial and demographic details of local life. Each of the substantive chapters focuses on the contributions and experiences of a particular household in the parish-the mill, the vicarage, the alehouse, the blacksmith's forge, the hovels of the labourers and coalminers, the cottages of the nail-smiths and ribbon-weavers, the farms of the yeomen and craftsmen, and the manor house of Arbury Hall itself-locating them precisely on specific sites in the landscape and the built environment; and sketching the evolving 'taskscapes' in which the inhabitants dwelled. A novel contribution to spatial history, as well as early modern material, social and economic history more generally, this study represents a highly original analysis of the significance of place, space, and flow in the history of English rural communities.

Author : Arthur F. Kinney,Thomas Warren Hopper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118824030

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A New Companion to Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney,Thomas Warren Hopper Pdf

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field

Author : Julia Reinhard Lupton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226266152

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Shakespeare Dwelling by Julia Reinhard Lupton Pdf

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters—these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard Lupton enters Shakespeare’s dwelling places in search of insights into the most fundamental human problems. Focusing on five works (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale), Lupton remakes the concept of dwelling by drawing on a variety of sources, including modern design theory, Renaissance treatises on husbandry and housekeeping, and the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The resulting synthesis not only offers a new entry point into the contemporary study of environments; it also shows how Shakespeare’s works help us continue to make sense of our primal creaturely need for shelter.

Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600049059

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The gipsy, by the author of 'Richelieu'. by George Payne Rainsford James Pdf

Author : Julie Park
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780226824765

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My Dark Room by Julie Park Pdf

"In what kinds of spaces do we become most aware of the thoughts in our own heads? My Dark Room is a book about the intimate sites of inner experience in eighteenth-century England and their role in the rise both of interiority and the novel. Julie Park considers sites such as grottos, cottages, closets, and especially the camera obscura, that beguiling enclosure into which the outside world is projected through a lens. This type of "dark room" and the projections within it serve Park as a paradigm for the fleeting states of interiority that eighteenth-century figures felt compelled to generate and experience. Park integrates material analyses of these "interior" spaces with close readings of novelistic and proto-novelistic texts. Taken together, these case studies amount to a fresh narrative of the novel's development as a genre of interiority from 1650 to 1811. They include Andrew Marvell's country house poem, Upon Appleton House; Margaret Cavendish's loosely fictional letters about domestic life, Sociable Letters, and the utopian fantasy/critique of the new science, The Blazing World; and Alexander Pope's long poem, Eloisa to Abelard. Park's innovative method of "spatial formalism" reveals how physical settings enable psychic interiors to achieve vitality in fictive and real lives"--

Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023975284

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The Gipsey: a Tale by George Payne Rainsford James Pdf

Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300151073

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The Gipsy by George Payne Rainsford James Pdf

Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Animals
ISBN : PRNC:32101013419559

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Peter Parley's Thousand and One Stories of Fact and Fancy, Wit and Humor, Rhyme, Reason, and Romance by Samuel Griswold Goodrich Pdf

Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10746901

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Works in Baudry's Edition by George Payne Rainsford James Pdf

Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000114913548

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Novels and Romances, Viz.-- by George Payne Rainsford James Pdf

Author : G. P. R. James
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066205553

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The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. James Pdf

This novel begins as two young men on horseback are riding side by side through the English countryside. They come at length upon a gypsy encampment and one young girl runs forward to plead for money in exchange for reading their palms. The men give her money but ride on without engaging her services.