Sonnet Sequences And Social Distinction In Renaissance England

Author : Christopher Warley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139444408

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Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England by Christopher Warley Pdf

Why were sonnet sequences popular in Renaissance England? In this study, Christopher Warley suggests that sonneteers created a vocabulary to describe, and to invent, new forms of social distinction before an explicit language of social class existed. The tensions inherent in the genre - between lyric and narrative, between sonnet and sequence - offered writers a means of reconceptualizing the relation between individuals and society, a way to try to come to grips with the broad social transformations taking place at the end of the sixteenth century. By stressing the struggle over social classification, the book revises studies that have tied the influence of sonnet sequences to either courtly love or to Renaissance individualism. Drawing on Marxist aesthetic theory, it offers detailed examinations of sequences by Lok, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. It will be valuable to readers interested in Renaissance and genre studies, and post-Marxist theories of class.

Author : Christopher Warley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521842549

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Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England by Christopher Warley Pdf

Since the 1970s there has been a broad and vital reinterpretation of the nature of literary texts, a move away from formalism to a sense of literature as an aspect of social, economic, political, and cultural history. While the earliest New Historicist work was criticized for a narrow and anecdotal view of history, it also served as an important stimulus for post-structuralist, feminist, Marxist, and psychoanalytical work, which in turn has increasingly informed and redirected it. Recent writing on the nature of representation, the historical construction of gender and of the concept of identity itself, on theatre as a political and economic phenomenon, and on the ideologies of art generally, reveals the breadth of the field. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture is designed to offer historically oriented studies of Renaissance literature and theatre which make use of the insights afforded by theoretical perspectives. The view of history envisioned is above all a view of our history, a reading of the Renaissance for and from our own time. Book jacket.

Author : Holger Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015032994306

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English and Scottish Sonnet Sequences of the Renaissance: Texts by Holger Klein Pdf

Author : A. D. Cousins,Peter Howarth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825399

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The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet by A. D. Cousins,Peter Howarth Pdf

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.

Author : Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107134256

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The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment by Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich Pdf

This book analyses how country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted identities.

Author : Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691170435

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The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms by Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman Pdf

An essential handbook for literary studies The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms—drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics—provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully revised and updated entries, including 100 that are new to this edition, the book offers clear and insightful definitions and discussions of critical concepts, genres, forms, movements, and poetic elements, followed by invaluable, up-to-date bibliographies that guide users to further reading and research. Because the entries are carefully selected and adapted from the Princeton Encyclopedia, the Handbook has unrivalled breadth and depth for a book of its kind, in a convenient, portable size. Fully indexed for the first time and complete with an introduction by the editors, this is an essential volume for all literature students, teachers, and researchers, as well as other readers and writers. Drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Provides 226 fully updated and authoritative entries, including 100 new to this edition, written by an international team of leading scholars Features entries on critical concepts (canon, mimesis, prosody, syntax); genres, forms, and movements (ballad, blank verse, confessional poetry, ode); and terms (apostrophe, hypotaxis and parataxis, meter, tone) Includes an introduction, bibliographies, cross-references, and a full index

Author : Leslie C. Dunn,Katherine R. Larson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317130475

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Gender and Song in Early Modern England by Leslie C. Dunn,Katherine R. Larson Pdf

Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Bringing together ongoing work in musicology, literary studies, and film studies, it elaborates an interdisciplinary consideration of the embodied and gendered facets of song, and of song’s capacity to function as a powerful-and flexible-gendered signifier. The essays in this collection draw vivid attention to song as a situated textual and musical practice, and to the gendered processes and spaces of song's circulation and reception. In so doing, they interrogate the literary and cultural significance of song for early modern readers, performers, and audiences.

Author : Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer,Harris Feinsod,David Marno,Alexandra Slessarev
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1678 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691154916

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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer,Harris Feinsod,David Marno,Alexandra Slessarev Pdf

Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.

Author : Katherine Blake
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535852456

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Shakespeare's Sonnets by Katherine Blake Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: Shakespeare's Sonnets is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Catherine Bates,Patrick Cheney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780198830696

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The Oxford History of Poetry in English by Catherine Bates,Patrick Cheney Pdf

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesises existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the volumes. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage. Featured are metre and form, figuration and allusiveness, and literary career, as well as a wide range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert. Major works discussed include Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Author : P. Innes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230372917

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Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet by P. Innes Pdf

This book is an analysis of the sonnet in the English Renaissance. It especially traces the relations between Shakespeare's sonnets and the ways in which other writers use the form. It looks at how the poetry fits into the historical situation at the time, with regard to images of the family and of women. Its exploration of these issues is informed by much recent work in critical theory, which it tries to make as accessible as possible.

Author : Catherine Bates
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118585191

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A Companion to Renaissance Poetry by Catherine Bates Pdf

The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520–1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animating the discipline. A Companion to Renaissance Poetry analyzes the historical, cultural, political, and religious background of the time, addressing issues such as education, translation, the Reformation, theorizations of poetry, and more. The book immerses readers in non-dramatic poetry from Wyatt to Milton, focusing on the key poetic genres—epic, lyric, complaint, elegy, epistle, pastoral, satire, and religious poetry. It also offers an inclusive account of the poetic production of the period by canonical and less canonical writers, female and male. Finally, it offers examples of current developments in the interpretation of Renaissance poetry, including economic, ecological, scientific, materialist, and formalist approaches. • Covers a wide selection of authors and texts • Features contributions from notable authors, scholars, and critics across the globe • Offers a substantial section on recent and developing approaches to reading Renaissance poetry A Companion to Renaissance Poetry is an ideal resource for all students and scholars of the literature and culture of the Renaissance period.

Author : Lisle Cecil John
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015009075634

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The Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences by Lisle Cecil John Pdf

Author : Nancy L. Simpson-Younger,Margaret Simon
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271086569

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Forming Sleep by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger,Margaret Simon Pdf

Forming Sleep asks how biocultural and literary dynamics act together to shape conceptions of sleep states in the early modern period. Engaging with poetry, drama, and prose largely written in English between 1580 and 1670, the essays in this collection highlight period discussions about how seemingly insentient states might actually enable self-formation. Looking at literary representations of sleep through formalism, biopolitics, Marxist theory, trauma theory, and affect theory, this volume envisions sleep states as a means of defining the human condition, both literally and metaphorically. The contributors examine a range of archival sources—including texts in early modern faculty psychology, printed and manuscript medical treatises and physicians’ notes, and printed ephemera on pathological sleep—through the lenses of both classical and contemporary philosophy. Essays apply these frameworks to genres such as drama, secular lyric, prose treatise, epic, and religious verse. Taken together, these essays demonstrate how early modern depictions of sleep shape, and are shaped by, the philosophical, medical, political, and, above all, formal discourses through which they are articulated. With this in mind, the question of form merges considerations of the physical and the poetic with the spiritual and the secular, highlighting the pervasiveness of sleep states as a means by which to reflect on the human condition. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Brian Chalk, Jennifer Lewin, Cassie Miura, Benjamin Parris, Giulio Pertile, N. Amos Rothschild, Garret A. Sullivan Jr., and Timothy A. Turner.

Author : Christopher Warley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107052925

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Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton by Christopher Warley Pdf

Through detailed readings of six canonical Renaissance works, this book shows the unique ability of literary criticism to describe class.