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Jonsonian Discriminations

Author : Michael McCanles
Publisher : Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jonsonian Discriminations written by Michael McCanles and published by Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the heart of all Ben Jonson's nondramatic poetry, argues Michael McCanles, lies the concept of true nobility. Jonson sought to transform the inherited aristocracy of England into an aristocracy of humanist virtue in which he could claim a place through his achievement of true nobility by the merits of his own intellectual labours. In this survey of all Jonson's non-dramatic poetry, McCanles identifies a range of dialectical and contrastive forms through which this concern was rendered poetically." "He analyses the contrastive forms in discussions of Jonson's prosody, his use of homonymy and synonymy, and of metaphor. He coins the term 'contrastivity' to encompass the play of semantic choices directed by Jonson's use of suprasegmentals at the local level of poetic technique, and the reader's process of reading wherein he or she confirms the validity of a poem's statements by recreating the process of selection/rejection that went into its creation." "Thematically, McCanles suggests that the vera nobilitas argument is in fact four distinct arguments in various ways mutually contradictory, collectively both supporting and subverting aristocratic and monarchical hierarchies. Thus he finds Jonson constrained to employ this argument in addressing aristocratic friends, patrons, and the monarch himself, with careful diplomacy in order to negate the subversive dimensions of his own advice and praise." "Employing the resources generated by the theoretical analysis of contrastivity in the first chapter, McCanles demonstrates the considerable complexity of Jonson's poetry, generally underestimated in current scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre

Author : A. D. Cousins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513782
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre written by A. D. Cousins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers how Jonson threaded his political views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. Renowned scholars offer perspectives on many of Jonson's major works, and together they reassess his political life in Jacobean and Caroline Britain.

The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson

Author : James Loxley
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415222273
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson written by James Loxley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays.

Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism

Author : R. Dutton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023037249X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism written by R. Dutton and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-03-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism is the first book-length study of Jonson's literary criticism, and examines the ways that criticism defines his unprecedented role as a professional author. Each chapter explores a different facet: 'The Lone Wolf' looks at Jonson's role in creating a critical discourse to respond to a new literary market-place; 'Poet and Critic' explores the relationship between his 'creative' and 'critical' writing; 'Poet and State' traces his accommodations as an author with censorship and other forms of authority; 'The Laws of Poetry' relates his appeals to classical precedent to his insecurity in a world where literary conditions were very different from those of ancient Greece and Rome; 'Jonson and Shakespeare' examines the old supposed rivalry as evidence of competing definitions of authorship. Throughout Richard Dutton suggests how Jonson's criticism set the terms for the profession of letters in England for more than a century. Finally an appendix provides a representative selection of Jonson's critical work.

Ben Jonson and Envy

Author : Lynn S. Meskill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521517435
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson and Envy written by Lynn S. Meskill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the centrality of envy in the works of Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's greatest literary rival.

The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson

Author : Richard Harp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646789
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson written by Richard Harp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.

New Perspectives on Ben Jonson

Author : James E. Hirsh
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636879
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Ben Jonson written by James E. Hirsh and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Leggatt revisits the issue of the double plot in Volpone and finds that an emphasis on simple thematic parallels between the two plots distorts the dramatic significance of their relationship. As Kate D. Levin shows, conventional critical approaches have obscured both the structural peculiarities that Jonson's plays share with his masques and his occasional disregard of playhouse pragmatism.

Ben Jonson’s Theatrical Republics

Author : J. Sanders
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230389449
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson’s Theatrical Republics written by J. Sanders and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book challenges conventional critical wisdom about the work of Ben Jonson. Looking in particular at his Jacobean and Caroline plays, it explores his engagement with concepts of republicanism. Julie Sanders investigates notions of community in Jonson's stage worlds - his 'theatrical republics' - and reveals a Jonson to contrast with the traditional image of the writer as conservative, absolutist, misogynist, and essentially 'anti-theatrical'. The Jonson presented here is a positive celebrant of the social and political possibilities of theatre.

The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia

Author : D. Heyward Brock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810890755
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia written by D. Heyward Brock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friend and rival of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson was one of the most learned and interesting men of his age. Throughout his fascinating life, he served not only as a bricklayer but also a soldier, an adventurer, an actor, a poet, and a playwright. The breadth of his experiences, acquaintances, friends, and enemies was legendary, and his literary canon is equally as diverse. The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia covers in detail the works, life, and times of this seminal figure of the English Renaissance. The cross-referenced entries include summaries of all Jonson’s plays, masques, and entertainments, as well as sketches of Jonson’s friends, enemies, patrons, disciples, actors, and fellow writers. In addition, the book identifies historical figures, mythological characters, and classical authors, as well as Jonson’s contemporaries and London place names mentioned in the works. Individuals who danced or participated in the masques and entertainments or tournaments for which Jonson wrote speeches are noted, as are the main actors known to have acted in the plays. All major scholars—from Jonson’s own day until the twenty-first century—who have commented on Jonson or his works are also included. An extensive bibliography completes this invaluable scholarly reference tool. Because of Jonson’s centrality to—and influence in and beyond—his age, this encyclopedia provides a dynamic, unparalleled vision of the English Renaissance literary scene. Capturing the depth and breadth of Jonson’s understanding of early Modern England, The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia will be especially useful for students, librarians, and academics interested in the literary and cultural scene from 1500 to 1650.

The Christian Tradition in English Literature

Author : Paul Cavill
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310861357
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Tradition in English Literature written by Paul Cavill and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features:• Wide chronological coverage of English literature, especially texts found in the Norton, Oxford, Blackwell and other standard anthologies• Short, punchy essays that engage with the texts, the critics, and literary and social issues• Background and survey articles• Glossaries of Bible themes, images and narratives• Annotated bibliography and questions for class discussion or personal reflection• Scholarly yet accessible, jargon-free approach – ideal for school and university students, book groups and general readersCreated for readers who may be unfamiliar with the Bible, church history or theological development, it offers an understanding of Christianity’s key concepts, themes, images and characters as they relate to English literature up to the present day.

The Grammar Rules of Affection

Author : Ross Knecht
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487538332
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Grammar Rules of Affection written by Ross Knecht and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance writers habitually drew upon the idioms and images of the schoolroom in their depictions of emotional experience. Memorable instances of this tendency include the representation of love as a schoolroom exercise conducted under the disciplinary gaze of the mistress, melancholy as a process of gradual decline like the declension of the noun, and courtship as a practice in which the participants are arranged like the parts of speech in a sentence. The Grammar Rules of Affection explores this synthesis of the affective and the pedagogical in Renaissance literature, analysing examples from major texts by Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson. Drawing on philosophical approaches to emotion, theories of social practice, and the history of education, this book argues that emotions appear in Renaissance literature as conventional, rule-guided practices rather than internal states. This claim represents a novel intervention in the historical study of emotion, departing from the standard approaches to emotions as either corporeal phenomena or mental states. Combining linguistic philosophy and theory of emotion, The Grammar Rules of Affection works to overcome this dualistic crux by locating emotion in the expressions and practices of everyday life.

Colonial Transformations

Author : R. Bach
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113708099X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Transformations written by R. Bach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Transformations covers early modern English poetry and plays, Gaelic poetry, and a wide range of English colonial propaganda. In the book, Bach contends that England's colonial ambitions surface in all of its literary texts. Those texts played multiple roles in England's colonial expansions and emerging imperialism. Those roles included publicizing colonial efforts, defining some people as white and some as barbarians, constituting enduring stereotypes of native people, and resisting official versions of colonial encounters.

Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition

Author : Victoria Moul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139485792
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition written by Victoria Moul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of the Roman poet Horace on Ben Jonson has often been acknowledged, but never fully explored. Discussing Jonson's Horatianism in detail, this study also places Jonson's densely intertextual relationship with Horace's Latin text within the broader context of his complex negotiations with a range of other 'rivals' to the Horatian model including Pindar, Seneca, Juvenal and Martial. The new reading of Jonson's classicism that emerges is one founded not upon static imitation, but rather a lively dialogue between competing models - an allusive mode that extends into the seventeenth-century reception of Jonson himself as a latter-day 'Horace'. In the course of this analysis, the book provides fresh readings of many of Jonson's best-known poems - including 'Inviting a Friend to Dinner' and 'To Penshurst' - as well as a new perspective on many lesser-known pieces, and a range of unpublished manuscript material.

Ben Jonson

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Magnetic Lady

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719048890
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book The Magnetic Lady written by Ben Jonson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first fully annotated edition of Ben Jonson's The Magnetic Lady, written in 1632. The introduction places the play in the context of Jonson's later dramatic and poetic works and discusses the political context of the Caroline court. A performance history of the play and fresh material relating to its 17th-century reception are also provided. This new edition by Peter Happè reappraises Jonson's much-neglected play and argues for its recognition as a work of real distinction.

Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

Author : Alison V. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317104374
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England written by Alison V. Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vitality, abundance, and waste, this study combines intellectual and cultural historical methods to trace discontinuities in luxury’s conceptual development in seventeenth-century England. The central argument is that, as ’luxury’ was gradually Englished in seventeenth-century culture, it developed political and aesthetic meanings that connect with eighteenth-century debates even as they oppose their so-called demoralizing thrust. Alison Scott closely examines the meanings of luxury in early modern English culture through literary and rhetorical uses of the idea. She argues that, while ’luxury’ could and often did denote merely ’lust’ or ’licentiousness’ as it tends to be glossed by modern editors of contemporary works, its cultural lexicon was in fact more complex and fluid than that at this time. Moreover, that fuller understanding of its plural and shifting meanings-as they are examined here-has implications for the current intellectual history of the idea in Western thought. The existing narrative of luxury’s conceptual development is one of progressive upward transformation, beginning with the rise of economic liberalism amidst eighteenth-century debates; it is one that assumes essential continuity between the medieval treatment of luxury as the sin of ’luxuria’ and early modern notions of the idea even as social practises of luxury explode in early seventeenth-century culture.

Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Joshua Scodel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824931
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature written by Joshua Scodel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. As early modern authors learned at grammar school and university, Aristotle and other classical thinkers praised "golden means" balanced between extremes: courage, for example, as opposed to cowardice or recklessness. By uncovering the enormous variety of English responses to this ethical doctrine, Joshua Scodel revises our understanding of the vital interaction between classical thought and early modern literary culture. Scodel argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Through close readings of diverse writers and genres, he shows that conflicting representations of means and extremes figured prominently in the emergence of a self-consciously modern English culture. Donne, for example, reshaped the classical mean to promote individual freedom, while Bacon held extremism necessary for human empowerment. Imagining a modern rival to ancient Rome, georgics from Spenser to Cowley exhorted England to embody the mean or lauded extreme paths to national greatness. Drinking poetry from Jonson to Rochester expressed opposing visions of convivial moderation and drunken excess, while erotic writing from Sidney to Dryden and Behn pitted extreme passion against the traditional mean of conjugal moderation. Challenging his predecessors in various genres, Milton celebrated golden means of restrained pleasure and self-respect. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Scodel suggests how early modern treatments of means and extremes resonate in present-day cultural debates.