The Places Of Early Modern Criticism

Author : Gavin Alexander,Emma Gilby,Alexander Marr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192571748

Get Book

The Places of Early Modern Criticism by Gavin Alexander,Emma Gilby,Alexander Marr Pdf

What is criticism? And where is it to be found? Thinking about literature and the visual arts is found in many places - in treatises, apologies, and paragoni; in prefaces, letters, and essays; in commentaries, editions, reading notes, and commonplace books; in images, sculptures, and built spaces; within or on the thresholds of works of poetry and visual art. It is situated between different disciplines and methods. Critical ideas and methods come into England from other countries, and take root in particular locations - the court, the Inns of Court, the theatre, the great house, the printer's shop, the university. The practice of criticism is transplanted to the Americas and attempts to articulate the place of poetry in a new world. And commonplaces of classical poetics and rhetoric serve both to connect and to measure the space between different critical discourses. Tracing the history of the development of early modern thinking about literature and the visual arts requires consideration of various kinds of place - material, textual, geographical - and the practices particular to those places; it also requires that those different places be brought into dialogue with each other. This book brings together scholars working in departments of English, modern languages, and art history to look at the many different places of early modern criticism. It argues polemically for the necessity of looking afresh at the scope of criticism, and at what happens on its margins; and for interrogating our own critical practices and disciplinary methods by investigating their history.

Author : ALEXANDE ET AL (EDS.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0191894745

Get Book

PLACES OF EARLY MODERN CRITISM by ALEXANDE ET AL (EDS.) Pdf

Author : Andrew Bozio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192585721

Get Book

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage by Andrew Bozio Pdf

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this, first, by establishing how characters think through their surroundings — not only how they orient themselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations, but also how their environs function as the scaffolding for perception, memory, and other forms of embodied thought. It then contends that these moments of thinking through place theorise and thematise the work that playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the setting of the dramatic fiction. By tracing the relationship between these two registers of thought in such plays as The Malcontent, Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine, King Lear, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and Bartholomew Fair, this book shows that drama makes visible the often invisible means by which embodied subjects acquire a sense of their surroundings. It also reveals how, in doing so, theatre altered the way that playgoers perceived, experienced, and imagined place in early modern England.

Author : Adam Zucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107003088

Get Book

The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy by Adam Zucker Pdf

An exploration of wit, witlessness and social and comic conventions in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson and their contemporaries.

Author : Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781531501624

Get Book

Being of Two Minds by Jonathan Goldberg Pdf

Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time were ontological questions about literature and its ability to mediate between the one and the many, the particular and the general, life and death, the past and the present. If reading and writing literature enables the mind to be in two places at once, creative experience serves as a way to participate in an expanded field of consciousness alongside mortality. Goldberg reads the readings that these modernists performed on texts that Eliot claimed for the canon like the metaphysical poets and Jacobean dramatists, but also Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, and Margaret Cavendish. Ontological concerns are reflected in Eliot’s engagement with Aristotle’s theory of the soul and Empson’s Buddhism. These arguments about being affect minds and bodies and call into question sexual normativity: Eliot glances at a sodomitical male-male mode of literary transmission; Woolf produces a Judith Shakespeare to model androgynous being; Empson refuses to distinguish activity from passivity to rewrite gender difference. The work of one of our leading literary and cultural critics, Being of Two Minds spans centuries to show how the most compelling and surprising ideas about mind, experience, and existence not only move between early modernity, high modernism, and our own moment, but are also constituted through that very movement between times and minds.

Author : Karl A.E. Enenkel,Walter Melion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004440401

Get Book

Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700 by Karl A.E. Enenkel,Walter Melion Pdf

This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.

Author : Ted Tregear
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192868497

Get Book

Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603 by Ted Tregear Pdf

Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare's works. Some featured whole poems, while others chose short passages from his poems and plays, gathered alongside lines on similar topics by his rivals and contemporaries. Appearing midway through his career, these anthologies marked a critical moment in Shakespeare's life. They testify to the reputation he had established as a poet and playwright by the end of the sixteenth century. In extracting passages from their contexts, though, they also read Shakespeare in ways that he might have imagined being read. After all, this was how early modern readers were taught to treat the texts they read, selecting choice excerpts and copying them into their notebooks. Taking its cue from these anthologies, Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603 offers new readings of the formative works of Shakespeare's first decade in print, from Venus and Adonis (1593) to Hamlet (1603). It illuminates a previously neglected period in Shakespeare's career, what it calls his 'anthology period'. It investigates what these anthologies made of Shakespeare, and what he made of being anthologized. And it shows how, from the early 1590s, his works were inflected by the culture of commonplacing and anthologizing in which they were written, and in which Shakespeare, no less than his readers, was schooled. In this book, Ted Tregear explores how Shakespeare appealed to the reading habits of his contemporaries, inviting and frustrating them in turn. Shakespeare, he argues, used the practice of anthologizing to open up questions at the heart of his poems and plays: questions of classical literature and the schoolrooms in which it was taught; of English poetry and its literary inheritance; of poetry's relationship with drama; and of the afterlife he and his works might win--at least in parts.

Author : John Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118458778

Get Book

A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies by John Lee Pdf

Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is a groundbreaking guide to the contemporary engagement with critical theory within the larger disciplinary area of Renaissance and Early Modern studies. Comprising commissioned contributions from leading international scholars, it provides an overview of literary theory, beyond Shakespeare, focusing on most major figures, as well as some lesser-known writers of the period. This book represents an important first step in bridging the divide between the abundance of titles which explore applications of theory in Shakespeare studies, and the relative lack of such texts concerning English Literary Renaissance studies as a whole, which includes major figures such as Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, and Milton. The tripartite structure offers a map of the critical landscape so that students can appreciate the breadth of the work being done, along with an exploration of the ways in which the treatments of or approaches to key issues have changed over time. Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is must-reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of early modern and Renaissance English literature, as well as their instructors and advisors. Divided into three main sections, “Conditions of Subjectivity,” “Spaces, Places, and Forms,” and “Practices and Theories,” A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies: Provides an overview of theoretical work and the theoretical-informed competencies which are central to the teaching of English Renaissance literary studies beyond Shakespeare Provides a map of the critical landscape of the field to provide students with an opportunity to appreciate the breadth of the work done Features newly-commissioned essays in representative subject areas to offer a clear picture of the contemporary theoretically-engaged work in the field Explores the ways in which the treatments of or approaches to key issues have changed over time Offers examples of the ways in which the practice of a theoretically-engaged criticism may enrich the personal and professional lives of critics, and the culture in which such critical practice takes place

Author : Susan Kamholtz Gubar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134567799

Get Book

English Inside and Out by Susan Kamholtz Gubar Pdf

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Leeds Barroll
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838637825

Get Book

Shakespeare Studies by Leeds Barroll Pdf

This volume includes the Forum Race and the Study of Shakespeare and a related essay, 'Hottentot': The Emergence of an Early Modern Racist Epithet. Other articles discuss the works of Robert Weimann, recent studies in early modern sexuality and concepts of virginity.

Author : Evelyn Gajowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350093249

Get Book

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism by Evelyn Gajowski Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading and genre studies, through those that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s that challenged the preconceptions on which traditional liberal humanism is based, including feminism, cultural materialism and new historicism. Perspectives drawn from postcolonial, queer studies and critical race studies, besides more recent critical practices including presentism, ecofeminism and cognitive ethology all receive detailed treatment. In addition to its coverage of distinct critical approaches, the handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A–Z glossary of key terms and concepts, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field and a substantial annotated bibliography.

Author : William K. Wimsatt, Jr.,Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000333213

Get Book

Literary Criticism: A Short History by William K. Wimsatt, Jr.,Cleanth Brooks Pdf

First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world. Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical theories, but also in vital dialectic with the creative literature of its own time. Volume Four focuses on Modern criticism and covers tragedy and comedy, symbolism, I. A. Richards’ critical theory, the semantic principle, Eliot and Pound, fiction and drama, and myth and archetype.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004461772

Get Book

Interpretation and Visual Poetics in Medieval and Early Modern Texts by Anonim Pdf

This book explores literary and non-literary texts, along with their early manuscripts and subsequent printed and digital editions, covering a time span extending over 1000 years.

Author : John J. Joughin,Simon Malpas
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719061393

Get Book

The New Aestheticism by John J. Joughin,Simon Malpas Pdf

This text introduces the notion of a new aestheticism - 'new' insofar as it identifies a turn taken by some contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focussing on the aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open different ways of thinking about identity, politics and culture.

Author : Helen Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199651580

Get Book

'Grossly Material Things' by Helen Smith Pdf

Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance. It recovering the ways in which women participated as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers.