The Ludic Self In Seventeenth Century English Literature

Author : Anna K. Nardo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791407217

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The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature by Anna K. Nardo Pdf

This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts of the period enact this mediation.

Author : Anna K. Nardo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791407225

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The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature by Anna K. Nardo Pdf

This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts of the period enact this mediation.

Author : Brian Sutton-Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674044180

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The Ambiguity of Play by Brian Sutton-Smith Pdf

Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct "rhetorics"--The ancient discourses of fate, power, communal identity, and frivolity and the modern discourses of progress, the imaginary, and the self. In a sweeping analysis that moves from the question of play in child development to the implications of play for the Western work ethic, he explores the values, historical sources, and interests that have dictated the terms and forms of play put forth in each discourse's "objective" theory

Author : John Donne,Gary A. Stringer,Paul A. Parrish
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0253111811

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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1 by John Donne,Gary A. Stringer,Paul A. Parrish Pdf

Praise for previous volumes: "This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." -- Chronique This is the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the scribal collection -- which contains unique authorial versions of several of the sonnets -- inscribed by Donne's friend Rowland Woodward in the Westmoreland manuscript.

Author : Achsah Guibbory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494862

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The Cambridge Companion to John Donne by Achsah Guibbory Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to John Donne introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing readings of his texts and also fully situating them in the historical and cultural context of early modern England, these essays offer the most up-to-date scholarship and introduce students to the current thinking and debates about Donne, while providing tools for students to read Donne with greater understanding and enjoyment. Special features include a chronology; a short biography; essays on political and religious contexts; an essay on the experience of reading his lyrics; a meditation on Donne by the contemporary novelist A. S. Byatt; and an extensive bibliography of editions and criticism.

Author : Matthew Kaiser
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804778947

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The World in Play by Matthew Kaiser Pdf

Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future. A world in play means two things: a world in flux and a world trapped, like Alice in Wonderland, in a ludic microcosm of itself. The book explores the extent to which play (competition, leisure, mischief, luck, festivity, imagination) pervades nineteenth-century literature and culture and forms the foundations of the modern self. Play made the Victorian world cohere and betrayed the illusoriness of that coherence. This is the paradox of modernity. Kaiser gives an account of how certain Victorian misfits—working-class melodramatists of the 1830s, the reclusive Emily Brontë, free spirits Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, mischievous Oscar Wilde—struggled to make sense of this new world. In so doing, they discovered the art of modern life.

Author : John Donne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253058386

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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.2 by John Donne Pdf

This volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 25 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, Volume 4.2 details the genealogical history of each poem, accompanied by a thorough prose discussion, as well as a General Textual Introduction of the Songs and Sonets collectively. The volume also presents a comprehensive digest of the commentary on these Songs and Sonets from Donne's time through 1999. Arranged chronologically within sections, the material for each poem is organized under various headings that complement the volume's companions, Volume 4.1 and Volume 4.3.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Humanities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020587940

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Ideas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literature
ISBN : UVA:X002473078

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Religion & Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philology
ISBN : UCSC:32106015870741

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A.U.M.L.A. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Terry Grey Sherwood
Publisher : Duquesne
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Common good
ISBN : UCSC:32106018980554

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The Self in Early Modern Literature by Terry Grey Sherwood Pdf

"Responding to the debate stimulated by cultural materialist and new historicist claims that the early modern self was fragmented by forces in Elizabethan England, Sherwood argues that the self was capable of unified subjectivity, demonstrating that the intersection of Protestant vocation and Christian civic humanism was a stabilizing factor in the early modern construction of self"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015059113749

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Richard Roberts
Publisher : Duquesne
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123242203

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John Donne by John Richard Roberts Pdf

Included here are nearly 1,600 entries of descriptive annotations wherein Roberts quotes extensively from each item in order to convey a sense of its approach and the level of its critical sophistication and complexity. Entries are organized chronologically, and within each year, alphabetically by author.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015067520950

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Nineteenth-century Literature by Anonim Pdf

Contains articles which focus on a broad spectrum of significant figures in fiction, philosophy, and criticism such as Austen, Carlyle, Dickens,Thackeray, the Brontes, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, and Henry James.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026044714

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The Eighteenth Century by Anonim Pdf