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Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Pilgrim Books (OK)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001178196
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0520061608
Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.
Author : Julian Markels
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0252019954
Author : Nancy L. Simpson-Younger,Margaret Simon
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271086569
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 : Stephanie Elsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192605849
Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers. Custom took on so much power because of its virtual synonymity with English common law, the increasingly dominant legal system that was also foundational to England's constitutionalist politics. The strange temporality assigned to legal custom, that is, its purported existence since 'time immemorial', furnished it with a unique and paradoxical capacity—to make new and foreign forms familiar. This volume shows that during a time when novelty was suspect, even insurrectionary, appeals to the widespread understanding of custom as a legal concept justified a startling array of fictive experiments. This is the first book to reveal fully the relationship between Renaissance literature and legal custom. It shows how writers were able to reimagine moments of historical and cultural rupture as continuity by appealing to the powerful belief that English legal custom persisted in the face of conquests by foreign powers. Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature thus challenges scholarly narratives in which Renaissance art breaks with a past it looks back upon longingly and instead argues that the period viewed its literature as imbued with the aura of the past. In this way, through experiments in rhetoric and form, literature unfolds the processes whereby custom gains its formidable and flexible political power. Custom, a key concept of legal and constitutionalist thought, shaped sixteenth-century literature, while this literature, in turn, transformed custom into an evocative mythopoetic.
Author : Paola Pugliatti,Alessandro Serpieri
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 3039110799
This book throws new light on the complexity and variety of practices which may be defined as 'theatrical' in a broad sense in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama. The volume deals first with the mainstream of dramatic production, starting from the anti-theatrical debate which characterized the whole period and increased in intensity as it went on. Here Shakespeare and Ben Jonson come on stage with their rejoinders to this issue. At the same time, while the universities were offering a kind of theatre workshop importing Latin and Italian models, popular performances were being staged in non-theatrical spaces. Tournaments, and their aristocratic codes, are explored as well as more popular and 'marginal' spectacles - such as those of conny-catching improvisers, jugglers, gypsy dancers and fortune-tellers, clowns and prophetesses.
Author : Elizabeth Mazzola
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9004111956
Challenging readings of Renaissance culture as an increasingly secular one, this work proposes instead that sacred symbols and practices still powerfully organized the English moral imagination, and that many ideas outlawed or forgotten by Protestant reformers shared a vital afterlife.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004315501
Urbino, Rome, Florence, Milan, Ferrara... but also Mantua and Imola, Carpi and Saluzzo, Naples and Sicily: a collection of case studies on the Renaissance renewal of Italian court palaces from a comparative perspective.
Author : Stephanie Elsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198861430
A study of the concept of custom, the basis of England's common law, in literary experiments of sixteenth-century England and Ireland.
Author : David Norbrook
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199247188
This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists, responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.
Author : Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804719586
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : Elizabeth Scott-Baumann,Ben Burton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198702818
'The Work of Form' investigates ways of reading early modern poetry which unite historical and formal approaches. Essays explore a wide range of meanings of form, drawing on early modern literary theory as well as practice to expand definitions and understandings of early modern poetic form.
Author : Virginia Lee Strain
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474416306
This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser's 'Faerie Queene', the 'Gesta Grayorum', Donne's 'Satyre V', and Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Winter's Tale', Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character. Reevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works. Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studiesAnalyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency.
Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0874134749
He argues that despite recent influential historicizations of English Renaissance literature, we still need a nuanced understanding of the ways in which "degree," the structure of social distinctions in Renaissance England, was symbolized in the period's literature.
Author : Isabel Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134844173
Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.
