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Author : Anita Gilman Sherman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108842662
Early modern skepticism contributed to literary invention, aesthetic pleasure, and the uneven process of secularization in England.
Author : Ann T. Delehanty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000825268
This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos, Scarron’s Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette’s Zayde. These early modern novels encourage readers to take a critical stance toward accepted beliefs, through content that stages multiple encounters with the shockingly unfamiliar as well as through experiments in literary form, especially the interpolated story. At its broadest reach, this study asserts the fundamental value of literature as a means of encouraging discernment, recognizing the illusory, and honing critical acuity. In terms of the particularity of the historical moment, the volume also identifies the early modern novel as uniquely able to represent the conflicting value spheres of early modernity because of its ability to present multiple voices and its fascination with conflicting vantage points. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France appeals to literary scholars and intellectual historians of the early modern period in Europe, as well as to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying the early novel, intellectual history, and philosophy of literature.
Author : Ellen Spolsky
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015053402510
Focusing on early modern Europe, Spolsky (English, Bar-Ilan U., Israel) considers the structure and detail of the local cultural world in which the brain constructs itself and how the individual negotiates the demands of that world. She argues against the inevitability of a tragic interpretation of the conditions of human knowing, suggesting instead that evidence of complex cultural texts demonstrates that the benefits derived from human creativity more than adequately compensates for any satisfaction an idealize knowing might provide. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Melissa M. Caldwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317054559
The central thesis of this book is that skepticism was instrumental to the defense of orthodox religion and the development of the identity of the Church of England. Examining the presence of skepticism in non-fiction prose literature at four transitional moments in English Protestant history during which orthodoxy was challenged and revised, Melissa Caldwell argues that a skeptical mode of thinking is embedded in the literary and rhetorical choices made by English writers who straddle the project of reform and the maintenance of orthodoxy after the Reformation in England. Far from being a radical belief simply indicative of an emerging secularism, she demonstrates the varied and complex appropriations of skeptical thought in early modern England. By examining a selection of various kinds of literature-including religious polemic, dialogue, pamphlets, sermons, and treatises-produced at key moments in early modern England’s religious history, Caldwell shows how the writers under consideration capitalized on the unscripted moral space that emerged in the wake of the Reformation. The result was a new kind of discourse--and a new form of orthodoxy--that sought both to exploit and to contain the skepticism unearthed by the Reformation.
Author : Leonie Pawlita
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110660548
This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries and investigates, from a comparative perspective, its reception in early modern English, Spanish and French drama, dedicating detailed readings to plays by Shakespeare, Calderón, Lope de Vega, Rotrou, Desfontaines, and Cervantes. While all the plays employ similar dramatic devices for "putting skepticism on stage", the study explores how these dramas, however, give different "answers" to the challenges posed by skepticism in relation to their respective historico-cultural and "ideological" contexts.
Author : W. Hamlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230502765
Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering abundant archival evidence as well as fresh treatments of Florio's Montaigne and Bacon's career-long struggle with the challenges of epistemological doubt, Hamlin's book explores the deep connections between scepticism and tragedy in plays ranging from Doctor Faustus and Troilus and Cressida to The Tragedy of Mariam , The Duchess of Malfi , and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore .
Author : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108843393
This collection reexamines commemoration and memorialization as generative practices illuminating the hidden life of Renaissance death arts.
Author : Jonathan Baldo,Isabel Karremann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009051491
This is the first collection to systematically combine the study of memory and affect in early modern culture. Essays by leading and emergent scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies offer an innovative research agenda, inviting new, exploratory approaches to Shakespeare's work that embrace interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. Drawing on the contexts of Renaissance literature across genres and on various discourses including rhetoric, medicine, religion, morality, historiography, colonialism, and politics, the chapters bring together a broad range of texts, concerns, and methodologies central to the study of early modern culture. Stimulating for postgraduate students, lecturers, and researchers with an interest in the broader fields of memory studies and the history of the emotions – two vibrant and growing areas of research – it will also prove invaluable to teachers of Shakespeare, dramaturges, and directors of stage productions, provoking discussions of how convergences of memory and affect influence stagecraft, dramaturgy, rhetoric, and poetic language.
Author : Alan Levine
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739100246
This collection of original essays by the nation's leading political theorists examines the origins of modernity, and considers the question of tolerance as a product of early modern religious skepticism. Rather than approaching the problem with a purely historical lens, the authors actively demonstrate the significance of these issues to contemporary debates in political philosophy and public policy. The contributors to Early Modern Skepticism raise and address questions of the utmost significance: Is religious faith necessary for ethical behavior? Is skepticism a fruitful ground from which to argue for toleration? This book will be of interest to historians, philosophers, religious scholars, and political theorists -- anyone concerned about the tensions between private beliefs and public behavior.
Author : Abraham Stoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108418737
This is an examination of how early modern poets attempt to capture the experience of being in the grip of conscience.
Author : Judith H. Anderson,Jennifer C. Vaught
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823251254
For more than fifty years, the proximity of Donne's work to Shakespeare's, including the range of their writings, has received scant attention. Centering on cross-fertilization between the writings of Shakespeare and Donne, the essays in this volume examine relationships that are broadly cultural, theoretical, and imaginative.
Author : Benedict S. Robinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230607439
This book traces the process through which authors like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton adapted, rewrote, or resisted romance, mapping a world in which new cross-cultural contacts and religious conflicts demanded a rethinking of some of the most fundamental terms of early modern identity.
Author : Paul Cefalu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139456258
Paul Cefalu's study explores the relationship between moral character and religious conversion in the poetry and prose of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, as well as in early modern English Conformist and Puritan sermons, theological tracts, and philosophical treatises. Cefalu argues that early modern Protestant theologians were often unable to incorporate a coherent theory of practical morality into the order of salvation. Cefalu draws on fresh historicist theories of ideology and subversion, but takes issue with historicist tendency to conflate generic and categorical distinctions among texts. He argues that imaginative literature, by virtue of its tendency to place characters in approximately real ethical quandaries, uniquely points out the inability of early modern English Protestant theology to merge religious theory and ethical practice. This study should appeal not only to literary critics and historians, but also to scholars interested in the history of moral theory.
Author : David Burchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351901789
These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, natural philosophers and artists in remaking their culture and reforming ideas about human understanding. Analyzing the ways in which the works of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn related to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the emergence of modern Western thought.
Author : Chris Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192548825
The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went from rarity to household décor within a single lifetime, and they delighted, inspired, and fascinated people across the socioeconomic spectrum. At the same time, they also unsettled, upset, disturbed, and sometimes angered their early modern readers. Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety is the first monograph dedicated to recovering the shadow history of the many anxieties provoked by early modern maps and mapping in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A product of a military arms race, often deployed for security and surveillance purposes, and fundamentally distortive of their subjects, maps provoked suspicion, unease, and even hostility in early modern Britain (in ways not dissimilar from the anxieties provoked by global positioning-enabled digital mapping in the twenty-first century). At the same time, writers saw in the resistance to cartographic logics and strategies the opportunity to rethink the way literature represents space—and everything else. This volume explores three major poems of the period—Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), and John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674)—in terms of their vexed and vexing relationships with cartographic materials, and shows how the productive protest staged by these texts redefined concepts of allegory, description, personification, bibliographic materiality, narrative, temporality, analogy, and other elemental components of literary representations.