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Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349076554
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Literature and the Discovery of Method in the English Renaissance written by Patrick Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allison Deutermann
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526111020
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Formal matters written by Allison Deutermann and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the formal properties of early modern texts, together with the materials that envelop and shape them, relate to the cultural, political, and social world of their production? Formal matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature answers this question by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history. It thus represents the new English Renaissance literary historiography tying literary composition to the materials and material practices of writing. The book combines studies of familiar and lesser known texts, from the poems and plays of Shakespeare to jests and printed commonplace books. Its ten studies make important, original contributions to research on the genres of early modern literature, focusing on the involvement of literary forms in the scribal and print cultures of compilation, continuation, translation, and correspondence, as well as in matters of political republicanism and popular piety, among others. Taken together, the collection’s essays exemplify how an attention to form and matter can historicise writing without abandoning a literary focus.
Author : M. Sabine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230372589
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Feminine Engendered Faith written by M. Sabine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes the poetic link between Donne and Crashaw during the English Reformation. In the first half of this work, Donne's Songs and Sonets, Verse Letters, religious works and Anniversaries are discussed as they reflect increasingly covert reverence for a holy mother figure. In the second half, Crashaw's juvenile poems and epigrams, verse in honour of the Virgin and Child, and mature contemplative verse are seen to express mystical homage to Mary and growing admiration for feminine powers of faith.
Author : Crystal Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047552
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Galileo's Reading written by Crystal Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues the importance of Galileo's reading and engagement with a range of writers to the shaping of early modern philosophy.
Author : Shyamal Bagchee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349101044
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book T. S. Eliot: A Voice Descanting written by Shyamal Bagchee and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a variety of approaches from the traditional to the post-modern, this volume brings together essays by 14 scholars who examine T.S.Eliot's poetry and criticism. These essays were written and edited on the occasion of Eliot's birth centenary.
Author : Ruth Katz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0765800810
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (658 download)
Download or read book Tuning the Mind written by Ruth Katz and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the late Renaissance, efforts to make vocal music more expressive heightened the power of words, which, in turn, gave birth to the modern semantics of musical expression. As the skepticism of seventeenth-century science divorced the acoustic properties from the metaphysical qualities of music, the door was opened to dicern the rich links between musical perception and varied mental faculties. In Tuning the Mind, Ruth Katz and Ruth HaCohen trace how eighteenth century theoreticians of music examined anew the role of the arts within a general theory of knowledge. As the authors note, the differences between the physical and emotional dimensions of music stimulated novel conceptions and empirical inquiries into the old aesthetic queries. Tracing this development, their opening chapter deals with seventeenth-century epistemological issues concerning the artistic qualities of music. Katz and HaCohen show that painting and literature displayed a comparable tendency toward "musicalization," whereby the dynamic of forms-the modalities specific to each artistic medium-rather than subject matter was believed to determine expression. Katz and HaCohen explore the ambiguities inherent in idealization of an art form whose mimetic function has always been problematic. They discuss the major outlines of this development, from Descartes to Vico through Condillac. Particular emphasis is placed on eighteenth-century British thinkers, from Shaftesbury to Adam Smith, who perceived these problems in their full complexity. They also explore how the French and the Germans dealt differently with questions that preoccupied the British, each nation in accordance with their own past tradition and tendencies. The concluding chapter summarizes the parallel development of abstract art and basic hypotheses concerning the mind and explores basic theoretical questions pertaining to the relationship between perception and cognition. In addressing some of the most complex problems in musical aesthetics, Katz and HaCohen provide a unique historical perspective on the ways their art creates and develops coherent worlds, and, in so doing, contribute to our understanding of the workings of the mind. Ruth Katz is Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is co-editor with Carl Dahlhaus of Contemplating Music, a four-volume study of the philosophy of music. Ruth HaCohen is Clarica and Fred Davidson Senior Lecturer of Musicology at the Hebrew University.
Author : P. Grant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230596959
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Rhetoric and Violence in Northern Ireland, 1968-98 written by P. Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Northern Irish Troubles of the past thirty years, a war of words has accompanied and interpenetrated with the actual conduct of violence in highly complex ways. This book considers how literature of the period engages and participates in this war of words. It draws on a range of contemporary authors and on a variety of printed sources, including journalists' reports, political speeches, interviews, memoirs, pamphlets and autobiography. The book places the Northern Ireland conflict within a broad European debate about the legitimate use of force, and provides an original analysis of the inter-relationship between language, literature and violence.
Author : Kevin Dunn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804722841
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Pretexts of Authority written by Kevin Dunn and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pretexts of Authority describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by examining the textual locus where this rhetoric appears in its most concentrated and complex form - the preface. In the process, it shows how the notion of authorship changed in a shift of systems of authorization during the Renaissance, a shift that coincides with the roots of the modern public sphere and with the change from religion to science and the public good as the intellectual court of appeal for legitimizing authorship. The author focuses on prefatory materials to kinds of texts that most fully exemplify the problem of self-authorization during the Renaissance. First, he examines Protestant prefaces, notably Luther's preface to his collected works and Milton's antiprelatical tracts. These works stand at the center of a rhetorical crisis; having abrogated the authority of the Catholic church through an appeal to the conscience of the individual, reformers found it necessary to forge a persona that could authorize their discourse without implying an authorizing will independent of God's. At the same time, these texts must attempt to close off means of authorization to potentially proliferating imitators. The second group of prefaces the author examines is to scientific works, notably those of Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes, who faced problems analogous to those of the Protestant reformers in their attempts to set aside Aristotelian authority without seeming to establish a personal authority that interrupts the transparent, impersonal discourse of scientific inquiry. The book argues that in both sets of texts the rhetorical quandary can be resolved only through recourse to the nascent notion of common sense, which allows an author to garner authority from an assumed bond with the audience. Authors no longer need to posit a privileged and suspect relation with the "master texts of Scripture" and the "Book of Nature," but can instead assume the mutual intelligibility of their text. This assumption is seen as the cause of the decline of the full-blown prefatory practice of the Renaissance.
Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349232971
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Discourse and the Meaning of Persons written by Patrick Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-03-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that there is a close relationship between aspects of the literature of Western spirituality and evolving ideas of the person, this book charts the interaction between literature and theology in producing certain historically-conditioned interpretations of what it means to be a person.
Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349093106
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Reading the New Testament written by Patrick Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent literary criticism and biblical scholarship are used here to discuss the New Testament's depiction of faith. The author argues that these tools can be used to present problems of religious belief imaginatively, and to bring home the full challenge of faith.
Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859915816
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Neo-historicism written by Robin Headlam Wells and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method. For nearly two decades, Renaissance literary scholarship has been dominated by various forms of postmodern criticism which claim to expose the simplistic methodology of `traditional' criticism and to offer a more sophisticated view of the relation between literature and history; however, this new approach, although making scholars more alert to the political significance of literary texts, has been widely criticised on both methodological and theoretical grounds. The revisionist essays collected in this volume make a major contribution to the modern debate on historical method, approaching Renaissance culture from different gender perspectives and a variety of political standpoints, but all sharing an interest in the interdisciplinary study of the past.ROBIN HEADLAM WELLS is Professor of English, University of Surrey Roehampton; GLENN BURGESS is Professor of History, University of Hull; ROWLAND WYMER is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull. Contributors: GLENN BURGESS, STANLEY STEWART, BLAIR WORDEN, ANDREW GURR, KATHARINE EISAMAN MAUS, ROWLAND WYMER, GRAHAM PARRY, MALCOLM SMUTS, STEVEN ZWICKER, HEATHER DUBROW, ROBIN HEADLAM WELLS.
Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000330699
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Dialogue in the Digital Age written by Patrick Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining literary criticism and theory with anthropology and cognitive science, this highly relevant book argues that we are fundamentally shaped by dialogue. Patrick Grant looks at the manner in which dialogue informs and connects the personal, political, and religious dimensions of human experience and how literacy is being eroded through many factors, including advances in digital technology. The book begins by tracing the history of evolved communication skills and looks at ways in which interconnections among tragedy, the limits of language, and the silence of abjection contribute to an adequate understanding of dialogue. Looking at examples such as “truth decay” in journalism and falling literacy levels in school, alongside literary texts from Malory and Shakespeare, Grant shows how literature and criticism embody the essential values of dialogue. The maintenance of complex reading and interpretive skills is recommended for the recuperation of dialogue and for a better understanding of its fundamental significance in the shaping of our personal and social lives. Tapping into debates about the value of literature and the humanities, and the challenges posed by digitalization, this book will be of interest and significance to people working in a wide range of subjects, including literary studies, communication studies, digital humanities, social policy, and anthropology.
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521318426
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (184 download)
Download or read book The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 2 written by Ben Jonson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-05-26 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Butler's edition is full and informative in its annotations and survey of criticisms to date, and cautiously respectful of Jonsonian punctuation.
Author : Sarah E. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317050649
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Staging Women and the Soul-Body Dynamic in Early Modern England written by Sarah E. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the gender-coded soul-body dynamic lies at the root of many negative and disempowering depictions of women, Sarah Johnson here argues that it also functions as an effective tool for redefining gender expectations. Building on past criticism that has concentrated on the debilitating cultural association of women with the body, she investigates dramatic uses of the soul-body dynamic that challenge the patriarchal subordination of women. Focusing on two tragedies, two comedies, and a small selection of masques, from approximately 1592-1614, Johnson develops a case for the importance of drama to scholarly considerations of the soul-body dynamic, which habitually turn to devotional works, sermons, and philosophical and religious treatises to elucidate this relationship. Johnson structures her discussion around four theatrical relationships, each of which is a gendered relationship analogous to the central soul-body dynamic: puppeteer and puppet, tamer and tamed, ghost and haunted, and observer and spectacle. Through its thorough and nuanced readings, this study redefines one of the period’s most pervasive analogies for conceptualizing women and their relations to men as more complex and shifting than criticism has previously assumed. It also opens a new interpretive framework for reading representations of women, adding to the ongoing feminist re-evaluation of the kinds of power women might actually wield despite the patriarchal strictures of their culture.
Author : John Donne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253058384
Total Pages : 1105 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.2 written by John Donne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Donne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253111814
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1 written by John Donne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kenneth Charlton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135688435
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Education in Renaissance England written by Kenneth Charlton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering both formal and informal education, this volume examines Renaissance education in England and Italy, set within the relevant social, political and historical context.
