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Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard

Rocco Coronato

Author : Rocco Coronato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351237918

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Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard by Rocco Coronato Pdf

This volume presents a contrastive study of the overlapping careers of Shakespeare and Caravaggio through the comparison of their strikingly similar conventional belief in symbol and the centrality of the subject, only to gradually open it up in an exaltation of multiplicity and the "indistinct regard" (Othello). Utilizing a methodological premise on the notions of early modern indistinction and multiplicity, Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard analyses the survival of English art after iconoclasm and the circulation of Italian art and motifs, methodologically reassessing the conventional comparison between painting and literature. The book examines Caravaggio’s and Shakespeare’s works in the perspective of the gradual waning of symbolism, the emergence of chiaroscuro and mirror imagery underneath their radically new concepts of representation, and the triumph of multiplicity and indistinction. Furthermore, this work assesses the validity of the twin concepts of multiplicity and indistinction as an interpretive tool in a dialectical interplay with much recent work on indeterminacy in literary criticism and the sciences.

Shakespeare's Poetics

Sarah Dewar-Watson

Author : Sarah Dewar-Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317056041

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Shakespeare's Poetics by Sarah Dewar-Watson Pdf

The startling central idea behind this study is that the rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century ultimately had a profound impact on almost every aspect of Shakespeare's late plays”their sources, subject matter and thematic concerns. Shakespeare's Poetics reveals the generic complexity of Shakespeare's late plays to be informed by contemporary debates about the tonal and structural composition of tragicomedy. Author Sarah Dewar-Watson re-examines such plays as The Winter's Tale, Pericles and The Tempest in light of the important work of reception which was undertaken in Italy by pioneering theorists such as Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio (1504-73) and Giambattista Guarini (1538-1612). The author demonstrates ways in which these theoretical developments filtered from their intellectual base in Italy to the playhouses of early modern England via the work of dramatists such as Jonson and Fletcher. Dewar-Watson argues that the effect of this widespread revaluation of genre not only extends as far as Shakespeare, but that he takes a leading role in developing its possibilities on the English stage. In the course of pursuing this topic, Dewar-Watson also engages with several areas of current scholarly debate: the nature of Shakespeare's authorship; recent interest in and work on Shakespeare's later plays; and new critical work on Italian language-learning in Renaissance England. Finally, Shakespeare's Poetics develops current critical thinking about the place of Greek literature in Renaissance England, particularly in relation to Shakespeare.

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources

Silvia Bigliazzi

Author : Silvia Bigliazzi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040085646

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Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources by Silvia Bigliazzi Pdf

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean plays, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Cymbeline. It focuses on the works of Sir Giovanni Fiorentino, Da Porto, Bandello, Ariosto, Dolce, Pasqualigo, and Groto, as well as on commedia dell’arte practices. This book discusses hitherto unexamined materials and revises received interpretations, disclosing the relevance of memorial processes within the broad field of intertextuality vis-à-vis conscious reuses and intentional practices.

Shakespeare’s Ruins and Myth of Rome

Maria Del Sapio Garbero

Author : Maria Del Sapio Garbero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000531596

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Shakespeare’s Ruins and Myth of Rome by Maria Del Sapio Garbero Pdf

Rome was tantamount to its ruins, a dismembered body, to the eyes of those – Italians and foreigners – who visited the city in the years prior to or encompassing the lengthy span of the Renaissance. Drawing on the double movement of archaeological exploration and creative reconstruction entailed in the humanist endeavour to ‘resurrect’ the past, ‘ruins’ are seen as taking precedence over ‘myth’, in Shakespeare’s Rome. They are assigned the role of a heuristic model, and discovered in all their epistemic relevance in Shakespeare’s dramatic vision of history and his negotiation of modernity. This is the first book of its kind to address Shakespeare’s relationship with Rome’s authoritative myth, archaeologically, by taking as a point of departure a chronological reversal, namely the vision of the ‘eternal’ city as a ruinous scenario and hence the ways in which such a layered, ‘silent’, and aporetic scenario allows for an archaeo-anatomical approach to Shakespeare’s Roman works.

Shakespeare’s Politic Histories

John H. Cameron

Author : John H. Cameron
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.

The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature

Camilla Caporicci,Armelle Sabatier

Author : Camilla Caporicci,Armelle Sabatier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000734836

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The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature by Camilla Caporicci,Armelle Sabatier Pdf

Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of "picturing" in early modern English literature. The essays in this volume offer a comprehensive and varied picture of the relationship between visual and verbal in the early modern period, while also contributing to the understanding of the literary context in which Shakespeare wrote. Using different methodological approaches and taking into account a great variety of texts, including Elizabethan sonnet sequences, metaphysical poetry, famous as well as anonymous plays, and court masques, the book opens new perspectives on the literary modes of "picturing" and on the relationship between this creative act and the tense artistic, religious and political background of early modern Europe. The first section explores different modes of looking at works of art and their relation with technological innovations and religious controversies, while the chapters in the second part highlight the multifaceted connections between European visual arts and English literary production. The third section explores the functions performed by portraits on the page and the stage, delving into the complex question of the relationship between visual and verbal representation. Finally, the chapters in the fourth section re-appraise early modern reflections on the relationship between word and image and on their respective power in light of early-seventeenth-century visual culture, with particular reference to the masque genre.

Medieval Teachers of Freedom

Marco Antonio Andreacchio

Author : Marco Antonio Andreacchio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000911541

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Medieval Teachers of Freedom by Marco Antonio Andreacchio Pdf

Medieval debates over "divine creation" are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "Intelligent Design" Creationists and Evolutionists. The present investigation cuts through the web of contemporary conflicts to examine problems seated at the heart of medieval talk about creation. From three representative authors we learn that the doctrine of divine creation is supposed to invite understanding of the relation between artistic freedom and natural necessity, of the very essence of causality, and thereby of the nexus between experience (our world of empirical determinations) and reality (the absolute indetermination of eternal being). Most importantly, medieval scholarship shows us that the problems it addresses are originally inherent in the understanding itself, whereby the question of being emerges as inseparable from the question of interpretation.

The Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance

James Calum O’Neill

Author : James Calum O’Neill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000911909

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The Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance by James Calum O’Neill Pdf

Described as ‘the most beautiful book ever printed’ previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, placing it within its European literary context. Using narratological analysis, it examines the journey of Poliphilo and the series of symbolic, allegorical, and metaphorical experiences narrated by him that are indicative of his metamorphosing interiority. It analyses the relationship between Poliphilo and his external surroundings in sequences of the narrative pertaining to thresholds; the symbolic architectural, topographical, and garden forms and spaces; and Poliphilo’s transforming interior passions including his love of antiquarianism, language, and Polia, the latter of which leads to his elegiac description of lovesickness, besides examinations of numerosophical symbolism in number, form, and proportion of the architectural descriptions and how they relate to the narrative.

Massinger’s Italy

Cristina Paravano

Author : Cristina Paravano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000919837

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Massinger’s Italy by Cristina Paravano Pdf

Massinger’s Italy: Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger offers the first book-length account of the pervasive influence of Italian culture on the canon of Philip Massinger, one of the most successful playwrights of the post-Shakespearean period. This volume explores the relationships between Massinger and Italian literary, dramatic and intellectual culture in the larger context of Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges. The book investigates the influence of Italian culture, considering Massinger’s engagement and appropriation of Italian texts, dramatic and political theories and ideas related to the country and his use of Italy as a setting. Massinger’s Italy offers a fresh and unexpected perspective on the development of Anglo-Italian discourse on the early modern English stage, showing to what extent Massinger contributed to the myth of Italy and to the circulation of Italian culture and shedding light on the complex system of Anglo-Italian interconnections within the corpus of Massinger’s plays as well as with the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

All the Devils Are Here

David Greven

Author : David Greven
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813951034

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All the Devils Are Here by David Greven Pdf

The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect not just an intertextual relationship between American Romanticism and the English tradition but also an ongoing engagement with gender and sexual politics. Greven limns the effect of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing on Hawthorne’s exploration of patriarchy, and he shows how misogyny in King Lear informed Melville’s evocation of “the step-mother world” of orphaned men in Moby-Dick. Throughout, Greven focuses particularly on male authors’ treatment of femininity, arguing that the figure of woman functions for them as a multivalent signifier for artistic expression. Ultimately, Greven demonstrates the ambitions of these writers to comment on the history of the Western tradition and the future of art from their unique positions as Americans.

A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2

Marco Duranti,Emanuel Stelzer

Author : Marco Duranti,Emanuel Stelzer
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788846768377

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A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 by Marco Duranti,Emanuel Stelzer Pdf

This volume originates as a continuation of the previous volume in the CEMP series (1.1) and aims at furthering scholarly interest in the nature and function of theatrical paradox in early modern plays, considering how classical paradoxical culture was received in Renaissance England. The book is articulated into three sections: the first, “Paradoxical Culture and Drama”, is devoted to an investigation of classical definitions of paradox and the dramatic uses of paradox in ancient Greek drama; the second, “Paradoxes in/of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama” looks at the functions and uses of paradox in the play-texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; finally, the essays in “Paradoxes in Drama and the Digital” examine how the Digital Humanities can enrich our knowledge of paradoxes in classical and early modern drama.

From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798-1898

Katherine Manthorne

Author : Katherine Manthorne
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783745524

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From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798-1898 by Katherine Manthorne Pdf

"From Darkness to Light explores from a variety of angles the subject of museum lighting in exhibition spaces in America, Japan, and Western Europe throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Written by an array of international experts, these collected essays gather perspectives from a diverse range of cultural sensibilities. From sensitive discussions of Tintoretto's unique approach to the play of light and darkness as exhibited in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, to the development of museum lighting as part of Japanese artistic self-fashioning, via the story of an epic American painting on tour, museum illumination in the work of Henry James, and lighting alterations at Chatsworth (to name only a few topics) this book is a treasure trove of illuminating contributions. The collection is at once a refreshing insight for the enthusiastic museum-goer, who is brought to an awareness of the exhibit in its immediate environment, and a wide-ranging scholarly compendium for the professional who seeks to proceed in their academic or curatorial work with a more enlightened sense of the lighted space."--Publisher's website.

The Routledge Research Companion to Anglo-Italian Renaissance Literature and Culture

Michele Marrapodi

Author : Michele Marrapodi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317044161

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The Routledge Research Companion to Anglo-Italian Renaissance Literature and Culture by Michele Marrapodi Pdf

The aim of this Companion volume is to provide scholars and advanced graduate students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research work on Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies. Written by a team of international scholars and experts in the field, the chapters are grouped into two large areas of influence and intertextuality, corresponding to the dual way in which early modern England looked upon the Italian world from the English perspective – Part 1: "Italian literature and culture" and Part 2: "Appropriations and ideologies". In the first part, prominent Italian authors, artists, and thinkers are examined as a direct source of inspiration, imitation, and divergence. The variegated English response to the cultural, ideological, and political implications of pervasive Italian intertextuality, in interrelated aspects of artistic and generic production, is dealt with in the second part. Constructed on the basis of a largely interdisciplinary approach, the volume offers an in-depth and wide-ranging treatment of the multifaceted ways in which Italy’s material world and its iconologies are represented, appropriated, and exploited in the literary and cultural domain of early modern England. For this reason, contributors were asked to write essays that not only reflect current thinking but also point to directions for future research and scholarship, while a purposefully conceived bibliography of primary and secondary sources and a detailed index round off the volume.

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance

Sally Barnden

Author : Sally Barnden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108487931

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Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance by Sally Barnden Pdf

Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.

Castration Desire

Robinson Murphy

Author : Robinson Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765102206

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Castration Desire by Robinson Murphy Pdf

Theorizes an alternative form of masculinity in global literature that is less egocentric and more sustainable, both in terms of gendered and environmental power dynamics. Contemporary novelists and filmmakers like Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese-British), Emma Donoghue (Irish-Canadian), Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lankan-Canadian), Bong Joon-ho (South Korean) and J.M. Coetzee (South African-Australian) are emblematic of a transnational phenomenon that Robinson Murphy calls “castration desire.” That is, these artists present privileged characters who nonetheless pursue their own diminishment. In promulgating through their characters a less egocentric mode of thinking and acting, these artists offer a blueprint for engendering a more other-oriented global relationality. Murphy proposes that, in addition to being an ethical prerogative, castration desire's “less is more” model of relationality would make life livable where veritable suicide is our species' otherwise potential fate. “Castration desire” thus offers an antidote to rapacious extractivism, with the ambition of instilling a sustainable model for thinking and acting on an imminently eco-apocalyptic earth. In providing a fresh optic through which to read a diversity of text-types, Castration Desire helps define where literary criticism is now and where it is headed. Castration Desire additionally extends and develops a zeitgeist currently unfolding in critical theory. It brings Leo Bersani's concept “psychic utopia” together with Judith Butler's “radical egalitarianism,” but transports their shared critique of phallic individualization into the environmental humanities. In doing so, this book builds a new framework for how gender studies intersects with environmental studies.

Shakespeare Caravaggio And The Indistinct Regard

Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard by Rocco Coronato Pdf

Shakespeare's Poetics by Sarah Dewar-Watson Pdf

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources by Silvia Bigliazzi Pdf

Shakespeare’s Ruins and Myth of Rome by Maria Del Sapio Garbero Pdf

Shakespeare’s Politic Histories by John H. Cameron Pdf

The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature by Camilla Caporicci,Armelle Sabatier Pdf

Medieval Teachers of Freedom by Marco Antonio Andreacchio Pdf

The Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance by James Calum O’Neill Pdf

Massinger’s Italy by Cristina Paravano Pdf

All the Devils Are Here by David Greven Pdf

A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 by Marco Duranti,Emanuel Stelzer Pdf

From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798-1898 by Katherine Manthorne Pdf

The Routledge Research Companion to Anglo-Italian Renaissance Literature and Culture by Michele Marrapodi Pdf

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance by Sally Barnden Pdf

Castration Desire by Robinson Murphy Pdf

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