Proteus Unmasked

Author : Trevor McNeely
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0934223742

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Proteus Unmasked by Trevor McNeely Pdf

This wide-ranging study touches many aspects of sixteenth-century British culture, putting Shakespearean drama into the context of one of the century's greatest preoccupations, the study and use of rhetoric. Its multifaceted thesis is developed cumulatively over four chapters, each linked to the one preceding, moving from the general picture of the role of rhetoric in sixteenth-century English culture, through its contribution to the rise of Elizabethan drama, and culminating in its specific application to the interpretation of Shakespeare. Recognizing the thesis's challenge to critical orthodoxy, both traditional and contemporary, in all of these areas, its development proceeds with full discussion and deliberation at every stage, citing a broad range of sixteenth-century as well as Classical rhetorical materials to justify a radically subversive reinterpretation of their thrust. Trevor McNeely is Professor Emeritus of English at Brandon University.

Author : Angelo Mazzocco
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047410249

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Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism by Angelo Mazzocco Pdf

Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, this volume’s essays give fresh and illuminating analyses of important aspects of Renaissance humanism, including its origin, connection to the papal court and medieval traditions, classical learning, religious and literary dimensions, and its dramatis personae.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024355129

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Modern Methodism unmasked: in a letter to the Rev. Richard Warner ... By a layman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elias Canetti
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780374607760

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Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti Pdf

Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany. In this study of the interplay of crowds, Canetti offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition.

Author : Lynée Lewis Gaillet,Winifred Bryan Horner
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826218681

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The Present State of Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric by Lynée Lewis Gaillet,Winifred Bryan Horner Pdf

Introduces new scholars to interdisciplinary research by utilizing bibliographical surveys of both primary and secondary works that address the history of rhetoric, from the Classical period to the 21st century.

Author : James S. Baumlin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739169605

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Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature by James S. Baumlin Pdf

Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing “theologies of language,” Baumlin reads Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Donne’s Songs and Sonets, and Milton’s “Lycidas” within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or “disenchantment” of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed “rhetoric of certitude.” Historians of rhetoric, of Reformation theology, and of renaissance literature will find this a carefully-argued, controversial, ground-breaking study.

Author : DS Mayfield
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110701777

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Rhetoric and Contingency by DS Mayfield Pdf

Human life is susceptible of changing suddenly, of shifting inadvertently, of appearing differently, of varying unpredictably, of being altered deliberately, of advancing fortuitously, of commencing or ending accidentally, of a certain malleability. In theory, any human being is potentially capacitated to conceive of—and convey—the chance, view, or fact that matters may be otherwise, or not at all; with respect to other lifeforms, this might be said animal’s distinctive characteristic. This state of play is both an everyday phenomenon, and an indispensable prerequisite for exceptional innovations in culture and science: contingency is the condition of possibility for any of the arts—be they dominantly concerned with thinking, crafting, or enacting. While their scope and method may differ, the (f)act of reckoning with—and taking advantage of—contingency renders rhetoricians and philosophers associates after all. In this regard, Aristotle and Blumenberg will be exemplary, hence provide the framework. Between these diachronic bridgeheads, close readings applying the nexus of rhetoric and contingency to a selection of (Early) Modern texts and authors are intercalated—among them La Celestina, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Wilde, Fontane.

Author : John H. Cameron
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003809029

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Shakespeare’s Politic Histories by John H. Cameron Pdf

This book argues that Shakespeare's first tetralogy is informed by the Italian ‘politic histories’ of the early modern period, those works of history, inspired by the Roman historian Tacitus, that sought to explore the machinations of power politics in governance and in the shaping of historical events; that a close reading of these Italian ‘politic histories’ will greatly aid our understanding of the ‘politic’ qualities dramatized in Shakespeare’s early English History plays; that the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli in particular will likewise aid to such understanding; that these ‘politic histories’ were available (in a variety of forms) to many English early modern writers, Shakespeare included, and are thus helpful as grounds for political and strategic analogy and for informing our reading of Shakespeare's politic histories. While a reading of the Italian ‘politic’ historians can aid in our understanding of Shakespeare’s achievement, we should regard the English History plays as ‘politic histories’ in their own right, i.e. as dramatized versions of precisely the same kinds of ‘politic’ historical writing, with its emphasis on ragion di Stato or raison d’état. This emphasis on what the Elizabethans called ‘stratagems’ suggests new ways to read the plays and to interpret the motivation and action of its characters, ways that challenge some of our more established reading of the plays’ ‘Machiavellian’ characters (particularly Richard III) and suggest far greater strategic acumen on the part of previously overlooked characters (particularly Buckingham and Stanley), providing new ways to read the Shakespeare's politic histories and to better appreciate their Italian connection.

Author : A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107172548

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Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama by A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin Pdf

This is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy.

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191056635

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Forensic Shakespeare by Quentin Skinner Pdf

Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet) and on three early Jacobean dramas, (Othello, Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well), Quentin Skinner argues that major speeches, and sometimes sequences of scenes, are crafted according to a set of rhetorical precepts about how to develop a persuasive judicial case, either in accusation or defence. Some of these works have traditionally been grouped together as 'problem plays', but here Skinner offers a different explanation for their frequent similarities of tone. There have been many studies of Shakespeare's rhetoric, but they have generally concentrated on his wordplay and use of figures and tropes. By contrast, this study concentrates on Shakespeare's use of judicial rhetoric as a method of argument. By approaching the plays from this perspective, Skinner is able to account for some distinctive features of Shakespeare's vocabulary, and also help to explain why certain scenes follow a recurrent pattern and arrangement. More broadly, he is able to illustrate the extent of Shakespeare's engagement with an entire tradition of classical and Renaissance humanist thought.

Author : Brian Ray
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781602356146

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Style by Brian Ray Pdf

Style: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy conducts an in-depth investigation into the long and complex evolution of style in the study of rhetoric and writing. The theories, research methods, and pedagogies covered here offer a conception of style as more than decoration or correctness—views that are still prevalent in many college settings as well as in public discourse.

Author : Carla Mazzio
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780812293401

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The Inarticulate Renaissance by Carla Mazzio Pdf

The Inarticulate Renaissance explores the conceptual potential of the disabled utterance in the English literary Renaissance. What might it have meant, in the sixteenth-century "age of eloquence," to speak indistinctly; to mumble to oneself or to God; to speak unintelligibly to a lover, a teacher, a court of law; or to be utterly dumfounded in the face of new words, persons, situations, and things? This innovative book maps out a "Renaissance" otherwise eclipsed by cultural and literary-critical investments in a period defined by the impact of classical humanism, Reformation poetics, and the flourishing of vernacular languages and literatures. For Carla Mazzio, the specter of the inarticulate was part of a culture grappling with the often startlingly incoherent dimensions of language practices and ideologies in the humanities, religion, law, historiography, print, and vernacular speech. Through a historical analysis of forms of failed utterance, as they informed and were recast in sixteenth-century drama, her book foregrounds the inarticulate as a central subject of cultural history and dramatic innovation. Playwrights from Nicholas Udall to William Shakespeare, while exposing ideological fictions through which articulate and inarticulate became distinguished, also transformed apparent challenges to "articulate" communication into occasions for cultivating new forms of expression and audition.

Author : Sean Keilen,Nick Moschovakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041672

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The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature by Sean Keilen,Nick Moschovakis Pdf

In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; they also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is connected with whatever qualities still make Shakespeare, himself, a classic (arguably the classic) of modern world literature and drama. The first sense of the classic which the volume addresses is the classical culture of Latin and Greek reading, translation, and imitation. Education in the canon of pagan classics bound Shakespeare together with other writers in what was the dominant tradition of English and European poetry and drama, up through the nineteenth and even well into the twentieth century. Second—and no less central—is the idea of classics as such, that of books whose perceived value, exceeding that of most in their era, justifies their protection against historical and cultural change. The volume’s organizing insight is that as Shakespeare was made a classic in this second, antiquarian sense, his work’s reception has more and more come to resemble that of classics in the first sense—of ancient texts subject to labored critical study by masses of professional interpreters who are needed to mediate their meaning, simply because of the texts’ growing remoteness from ordinary life, language, and consciousness. The volume presents overviews and argumentative essays about the presence of Latin and Greek literature in Shakespeare’s writing. They coexist in the volume with thought pieces on the uses of the classical as a historical and pedagogical category, and with practical essays on the place of ancient classics in today’s Shakespearean classrooms.

Author : David George
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781387802593

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A New Variorium Edition of Shakespeare CORIOLANUS Volume II by David George Pdf

Irregular, Doubtful, and Emended Accidentals in F1 In the Textual Notes, the lemma is the reading of this edition's text. In these notes, for emendations to F1, the lemma is followed by the siglum or sigla of the edition(s) from which the emendation is taken, and then by the rejected F1 reading and the siglum or sigla of the 17th-c. editions reading differently from the lemma. Where no source is given for the emendation, the adopted reading is not in any of the folios. Doubtful and irregular readings are merely listed. (

Author : William J. Torrance Kirby
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004165342

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A Companion to Richard Hooker by William J. Torrance Kirby Pdf

Richard Hooker explained and defended the Elizabethan religious and political settlement, and shaped the self-understanding of the Church of England for generations. This Companion offers a comprehensive and systematic introduction to Hookera (TM)s life, works, thought, reputation, and influence.