Reconceiving The Renaissance

Author : Ewan Fernie,Ramona Wray,Mark Thornton Burnett,Clare McManus
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191532757

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Reconceiving the Renaissance by Ewan Fernie,Ramona Wray,Mark Thornton Burnett,Clare McManus Pdf

The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period. Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practised, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. Through a rich array of arguments by the world's leading experts, the Renaissance emerges wonderfully invigorated, while the suggestive shorter extracts, topical questions and engaged editorial introductions give students the wherewithal and encouragement to do some reconceiving themselves.

Author : Clare McManus
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199265572

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Reconceiving the Renaissance by Clare McManus Pdf

The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period.Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practised, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. Through a rich array of arguments by the world's leading experts, the Renaissance emerges wonderfully invigorated, while the suggestive shorter extracts, topical questions and engaged editorial introductions give students the wherewithal and encouragement to do somereconceiving themselves.

Author : Ewan Fernie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1383040761

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Reconceiving the Renaissance by Ewan Fernie Pdf

The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, this volue offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period.

Author : Eric C. Fernie,Ewan Fernie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:501327740

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Reconceiving the Renaissance by Eric C. Fernie,Ewan Fernie Pdf

Author : Diana E. Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781134099023

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Alternative Shakespeares by Diana E. Henderson Pdf

Introducing the most innovative of the new directions emerging in Shakespearean scholarship, this volume identifies and explores the new, the changing and the radically 'other' possibilities for Shakespeare Studies at this current time.

Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826463142

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Shakespeare’s Politics by Robin Headlam Wells Pdf

Shakespeare's Politics is an invaluable introduction to the political world of Shakespeare's plays. It includes passages from the plays together with extracts from contemporary historical and political documents. The clear, jargon-free narrative introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England. The introduction outlines the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote and explains the intellectual principles that informed early modern thinking about politics. By reading Shakespeare alongside contemporary documents students will be able to develop their own informed critical interpretations of the plays. Shakespeare's Politics is essential for anyone studying Shakespeare while tutors and postgraduate students will find the book's up-to-date survey of modern Shakespeare criticism useful and provocative.

Author : William Caferro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444391329

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Contesting the Renaissance by William Caferro Pdf

In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance Engages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern state, and reason and faith Takes a balanced approach to the many different problems and perspectives that characterize Renaissance studies

Author : Harvard University. Graduate School of Design
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 9781568981246

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Studio Works 5 by Harvard University. Graduate School of Design Pdf

This text reflects and documents the spirit and character of the design studios at Harvard's Graduate School of Design through student work and texts, dialogues and interviews. It includes work from each department - architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning and design.

Author : Valerie Traub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191019722

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment by Valerie Traub Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of current debates.

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317038177

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The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature by Sophie Chiari Pdf

With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation and discovery in a struggle to bring population to a minimal literacy, while more demanding techniques were being developed for the cultural elite. The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature examines the question of transmission and of the educational procedures in16th- and 17th-century England by emphasizing deviant practices that questioned, reassessed or even challenged pre-established cultural norms and traditions. This volume thus alternates theoretical analyses with more specific readings in order to investigate the multiple ways in which ideas then circulated. It also addresses the ways in which the dominant cultural forms of the literature and drama of Shakespeare’s age were being subverted. In this regard, its various contributors analyze how the interrelated processes of initiation, transmission and transgression operated at the core of early modern English culture, and how Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton, or lesser known poets and playwrights such as Thomas Howell, Thomas Edwards and George Villiers, managed to appropriate these cultural processes in their works.

Author : Gary Taylor,Trish Thomas Henley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199559886

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The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton by Gary Taylor,Trish Thomas Henley Pdf

The 37 essays in The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton reinterpret the English Renaissance through the lens of one of its most original, and least understood, geniuses. Shakespeare's younger contemporary and collaborator, Middleton wrote modern comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, history plays, masques, pageants, pamphlets, and poetry. The largest collection of new Middleton criticism ever assembled, this ambitious Handbook provides a comprehensive, in-depth, cutting-edge reaction to OUP's Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, winner of the 2009 MLA prize for editing, the first complete scholarly text of his voluminous and diverse oeuvre. The Handbook brings together an international, cross-generational team of experts to discuss all these genres through an equally diverse range of critical approaches, from feminism to stylistics, ecocriticism to performance studies, Aristotle to Zizek. Reinterpretations of canonical plays such as The Changeling, Women Beware Women, The Roaring Girl, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside mingle with explorations of neglected or recently-identified works. Middleton's dramatic use of dance, music, and clothing, Middletonian adaptation, his relationships to the classical world and to continental Europe, his fascinating explorations of sexuality and religion, all receive attention. The collection also provides new essays on modern and postmodern reactions to Middleton, including recent Middleton revivals and films, and living artists' responses to his work-responses that range from the actresses who play Middleton's women to writers in various genres who have been inspired by his artistry. The Handbook establishes an authoritative foundation for the rapidly-expanding growth of interest in this extraordinarily protean, funny, moving, disturbing, and modern writer.

Author : Eric Nicholson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317006961

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Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater by Eric Nicholson Pdf

Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it represented material and symbolic exchanges across political, linguistic, and cultural borders (both "national" and "regional") but also in the ways that it enacted them. Contributors study various modalities of exchange, including the material and causal influence of one theater upon another, as in the case of actors traveling beyond their own regional boundaries; generalized and systemic influence, such as the diffused effect of Italian comedy on English drama; the transmission of theoretical and ethical ideas about the theater by humanist vehicles; the implicit dialogue and exchange generated by actors playing "foreign" roles; and polyglot linguistic resonances that evoke circum-Mediterranean "cultural geographies." In analyzing theater as a medium of dialogic communication, the volume emphasizes cultural relationships of exchange and reciprocity more than unilateral encounters of hegemony and domination.

Author : Neema Parvini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748646142

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Shakespeare's History Plays: Rethinking Historicism by Neema Parvini Pdf

Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. The book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays.

Author : Neema Parvini
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441129741

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Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory by Neema Parvini Pdf

In the 30 years since the publication of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning overthrew traditional modes of Shakespeare criticism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have rapidly become the dominant modes for studying and writing about the Bard. This comprehensive guide introduces students to the key writers, texts and ideas of contemporary Shakespeare criticism and alternatives to new historicist and cultural materialist approaches suggested by a range of dissenters including evolutionary critics, historical formalists and advocates of 'the new aestheticism', and the more politically active presentists. Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory covers such topics as: - The key theoretical influences on new historicism including Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser. - The major critics, from Stephen Greenblatt to Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. - Dissenting views from traditional critics and contemporary theorists. Chapter summaries and questions for discussion throughout encourage students to critically engage with contemporary Shakespeare theory for themselves. The book includes a 'Who's Who' of major critics, a timeline of key publications and a glossary of essential critical terms to give students and teachers easy access to essential information.

Author : Amanda Naylor,Audrey B. Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136493768

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Teaching Poetry by Amanda Naylor,Audrey B. Wood Pdf

Teaching Poetry is an indispensible source of guidance, confidence and ideas for all those new to the secondary English classroom. Written by experienced teachers who have worked with the many secondary pupils who ‘don’t get’ poetry, this friendly guide will help you support pupils as they access, understand, discuss and enjoy classic and contemporary poetry. With an emphasis on active approaches and the power of poetry to enrich the lives of both teachers and students, Teaching Poetry: Provides a succinct introduction to the major ideas and theory about teaching poetry Covers the key genres and periods through tried and tested favourites and a range of less well known new and historical poetry Illustrates good practice for every approach covered, through case studies of theory and ideas in action in the classroom Includes activities, ideas and resources to support teaching at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. Teaching Poetry tackles head on one of the aspects of English teaching that new and experienced teachers alike find most difficult. It offers both a comprehensive introduction to teaching poetry and a rich source of inspiration and support to be mined when faced with an unfamiliar text or an unresponsive class.