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Renaissance Syntax and Subjectivity

Author : John C. Leeds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351904337
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Syntax and Subjectivity written by John C. Leeds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Latin and the Scots vernacular in the chronicle literature of 16th-century Scotland provides the topic for this study. John Leeds here shows how the disposition of grammatical subjects, in the radically dissimilar syntactic systems of humanist neo-Latin and Scots, conditions the way in which "the subject" (i.e., the human individual) and its actions are conceived in the writing of history. In doing so, he extends the boundaries of existing critical literature on early modern "subjectivity" to include the subject of grammar, analyzing its incorporation into narrative sentences and illuminating the ideological contents of different systems for its deployment. Though focused on the chronicles of Renaissance Scotland, the argument can in principle be applied to the entire range of Latin-vernacular relations during the early modern period. While examining the intellectual culture of early modernity, Leeds also takes aim, at every stage of his argument, at the semiotic and social-constructionist orthodoxies that dominate the humanities today. Against the notion that human subjects are "discursive constructs," he argues for the subordination of discourse to realities, both material and immaterial, that are external to language. As part of this argument, he proposes a view of neo-Latin humanism as a resistance to the onset of modernity, arguing that Latin prose provides options (at once syntactic, ideological, and ontological) that vernacular culture has, to its considerable detriment, foreclosed. In sum, Leeds advocates a renewed and theoretically-informed commitment to the humanism that the humanities themselves have been at such pains, during the last scholarly generation, to depreciate.

Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England

Author : Elizabeth Hanson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052162021X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England written by Elizabeth Hanson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern 'would pluck out the heart of [his] mystery', he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England. The struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart is rehearsed not only in plays but in legal records, correspondence, philosophical writing and contemporary social description. In this book Elizabeth Hanson argues that the construction of other people as objects of discovery signalled a reconceptualizing of the 'subject' in both the political and philosophical sense of the term. She examines the records of state torture, plays by Shakespeare and Jonson, 'cony-catching' pamphlets and Francis Bacon's philosophical writing, to demonstrate that the subject was both under suspicion and empowered in this period. Her account revises earlier attempts to locate the emergence of modern subjectivity in the Renaissance, arguing for a more nuanced and localized understanding of the relationship with its medieval past.

On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy

Author : Douglas Biow
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081229050X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy by : Douglas Biow

Download or read book On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy written by Douglas Biow and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern period. Still, as he contends in this witty, reflective, and generously illustrated book, the category of the individual was important and highly complex for a variety of men in this particular time and place, for both those who belonged to the elite and those who aspired to be part of it. Biow explores the individual in light of early modern Italy's new patronage systems, educational programs, and work opportunities in the context of an increased investment in professionalization, the changing status of artisans and artists, and shifting attitudes about the ideology of work, fashion, and etiquette. He turns his attention to figures familiar (Benvenuto Cellini, Baldassare Castiglione, Niccolò Machiavelli, Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgio Vasari) and somewhat less so (the surgeon-physician Leonardo Fioravanti, the metallurgist Vannoccio Biringuccio). One could excel as an individual, he demonstrates, by possessing an indefinable nescio quid, by acquiring, theorizing, and putting into practice a distinct body of professional knowledge, or by displaying the exclusively male adornment of impressively designed facial hair. Focusing on these and other matters, he reveals how we significantly impoverish our understanding of the past if we dismiss the notion of the individual from our narratives of the Italian and the broader European Renaissance.

Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004280189
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular offers a collection of studies that deal with the cultural exchange between Neo-Latin and the vernacular, and with the very cultural mobility that allowed for the successful development of Renaissance bilingual culture. Studying a variety of multilingual issues of language and poetics, of translation and transfer, its authors interpret Renaissance cross-cultural contact as a radically dynamic, ever-shifting process of making cultural meaning. With renewed attention for suitable theoretical and methodological frames of reference, Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular firmly resists literary history’s temptation to pin down the Early Modern relationship between languages, literatures and cultures, in favour of stressing the sheer variety and variability of that relationship itself. Contributors are Jan Bloemendal, Ingrid De Smet, Annet den Haan, Tom Deneire, Beate Hintzen, David Kromhout, Bettina Noak, Ingrid Rowland, Johanna Svensson, Harm-Jan van Dam, Guillaume van Gemert, Eva van Hooijdonk, and Ümmü Yüksel.

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Monasteriensis

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004289186
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Monasteriensis written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1971, the International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies has been organised every three years in various cities in Europe and North America. In August 2012, Münster in Germany was the venue of the fifteenth Neo-Latin conference, held by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The proceedings of the Münster conference have been collected in this volume under the motto „ Litterae neolatinae, sedes et quasi domicilia rerum religiosarum et politicarum – Religion and Politics in Neo-Latin Literature”. Forty-five individual and five plenary papers spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present offer a variety of themes covering a range of genres such as history, literature, philology, art history, and religion. The contributions will be of relevance not only for scholarly readers, but also for an interested non-professional audience.

The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature

Author : Mr Erik Butler
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409476251
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature written by Mr Erik Butler and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means of satirizing outmoded cultural institutions and promoting new methods of instruction. In light of works written in Renaissance Italy, ancien régime France, and baroque Germany (Andrea Guarna's Bellum Grammaticale [1511], Antoine Furetière's Nouvelle allégorique [1658], and Justus Georg Schottelius' Horrendum Bellum Grammaticale [1673]), this study explores early modern representations of language as war. While often playful in form and intent, the texts examined address serious issues of enduring relevance: the relationship between tradition and innovation, the power of language to divide and unite peoples, and canon-formation. Moreover, the author contends, the "language wars" illuminate the shift from a Latin-based understanding of learning to the acceptance of vernacular erudition and the emergence of national literature.

A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638

Author : Ian Hazlett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004335951
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638 by : Ian Hazlett

Download or read book A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638 written by Ian Hazlett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland deals with the making, shaping, and development of the Scottish Reformation. 28 authors offer new analyses of various features of a religious revolution and select personalities in evolving theological, cultural, and political contexts.

Humanistica Lovaniensia

Author : Dirk Sacré
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058678466
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Humanistica Lovaniensia written by Dirk Sacré and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 59 Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, published annually, is the leading journal in the field of Renaissance and modern Latin. As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the journal is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Its systematic bibliography of Neo-latin studies (Instrumentum bibliographicum Neolatinum), accompanied by critical notes, is the standard annual bibliography of publications in the field. The journal is fully indexed (names, mss., Neo-Latin neologisms).

The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Author : Andrew Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496105
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain written by Andrew Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ordinary -- The self -- The word -- The dead.

The Poetics of Renaissance Subjectivity

Author : Eric Thomas Caldwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780549438243
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Renaissance Subjectivity written by Eric Thomas Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetic of Renaissance Subjectivity, explores how writers throughout the early modern period conceive of subjectivity as a distinctly specular and erotic phenomenon, a phenomenon in which selves orient and produce themselves by identifying images of the other as images of the self. By so recognizing an image of the other (whether it is an image of Christ, the pure in heart, one's humanist master, a stage persona, Henry Hotspur, or Cyrus the Great) as an idealized image of the self, the self charts the course of its own development, but at the same time, it embeds itself into the narrative and symbolic tissues of external discourses and ideologies. In this way, the specular and erotic nature of subjectivity as theorized by early modern writers paradoxically provides the terms through which writers explore the self's autonomy as well as its profound susceptibility to external manipulation.

Intricate Thicket

Author : Mark Scroggins
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817358048
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Intricate Thicket written by Mark Scroggins and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries offers a collection of nineteen essays that deftly erodes the simplistic distinction between modernism and postmodernism, showing that many attributes of postmodernist verse form not a break with, but rather a continuation of, modernist poetry.

Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance

Author : Jonathan Hope
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408143747
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance by : Jonathan Hope

Download or read book Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance written by Jonathan Hope and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book is nothing short of brilliant. It is bursting with new observations, pithy readings and sensitive analyses. One of Hope's skills is to show us that 'language' is not separable from 'ideas'; both are systems of representation. This is a book about words, conventions, artifice, mythology, innovation, reason, eloquence, silence, control, communication, selfhood, dialect, 'late style' and much, much more. After reading Hope's book you will never read Shakespeare in the same way.' (Professor Laurie Maguire, Magdalen College, Oxford) Our understanding of words, and how they get their meanings, relies on a stable spelling system and dictionary definitions - things which simply did not exist in the Renaissance. At that time, language was speech rather than writing; a word was by definition a collection of sounds not letters - and the consequences of this run deep. They explain our culture's inability to fully appreciate Shakespeare's wordplay and they also account for the rift that opened up between Shakespeare and us as language came to be regarded as essentially 'written'. In Shakespeare and Language, Jonathan Hope considers the ideas about language that separate us from Shakespeare. His comprehensive study explores the visual iconography of language in the Renaissance, the influence of the rhetorical tradition, the extent to which Shakespeare's late style is driven by a desire to increase the subjective content of the text, and contemporary ways of studying his language using computers.

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 41

Author : Reinhold F. Glei
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442257962
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 41 written by Reinhold F. Glei and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume 41 is a special issue which features twelve outstanding articles from the International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature.

Studies in Renaissance Grammar

Author : W. Keith Percival
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000944441
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Renaissance Grammar written by W. Keith Percival and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent can one speak of 'the Renaissance' in terms of grammar: did the medieval curricular subject grammatica survive into the Renaissance unchanged or was it transformed by the pedagogical programme of the humanists? The studies collected here focus on this question and trace the development of humanistic approaches to grammar. The first section consists of essays on the general characteristics of grammar in the period and on its connections with rhetoric. The following parts are devoted to three major grammatical writers: Guarino Veronese (1374-1460), Niccolò Perotti (1419/1420-1480), and Antonio de Nebrija (1441/1444?-1522). There is finally a section dealing with other figures, such as the famous Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457). Professor Percival focuses throughout on widely disseminated textbooks, beginning with the earliest attempt at a humanistic rejuvenation of grammar, the brief 'Regulae grammaticales' of Guarino Veronese (c. 1418), followed by Perotti's comprehensive 'Rudimenta grammatices', published in 1473 by Rome's first printers, and finally Nebrija's commercially successful 'Introductiones Latinae' (Salamanca, 1481). Nebrija's textbook proved the longest-lived, but Perotti's was also an international best-seller, going through many editions in several countries.

Movement in Renaissance Literature

Author : Kathryn Banks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319692003
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Movement in Renaissance Literature written by Kathryn Banks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed ‘kinesic intelligence’, a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through analyses of authors including Petrarch, Rabelais, and Shakespeare, the book explores how embodied cognition, historical context, and literary style interact to generate and shape responses to texts. It suggests that what was reborn in the Renaissance was partly a critical sense of the capacities and complexities of bodily movement. The linguistic ingenuity of humanism set bodies in motion in complex and paradoxical ways. Writers engaged anew with the embodied grounding of language, prompting readers to deploy sensorimotor attunement. Actors shaped their bodies according to kinesic intelligence molded by theatrical experience and skill, provoking audiences to respond to their most subtle movements. An approach grounded in kinesic intelligence enables us to re-examine metaphor, rhetoric, ethics, gender, and violence. The book will appeal to scholars and students of English, French, and Italian Renaissance literature and to researchers in the cognitive humanities, cognitive sciences, and theatre studies.

Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities

Author : Danila Alekseevich Sokolov
Publisher : Medieval & Renaissance Literar
ISBN 13 : 9780820704975
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities written by Danila Alekseevich Sokolov and published by Medieval & Renaissance Literar. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crosses the traditional medieval/early modern boundary to focus on reading Renaissance texts in light of earlier poetic forms

Civil Vengeance

Author : Emily L. King
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739662
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Civil Vengeance written by Emily L. King and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage—the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus—emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody "revenge plays" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture. In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of society—church, law, and education—relied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragedies (including Marston's Antonio's Revenge and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) alongside a new archive that includes conduct manuals, legal and political documents, and sermons. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body.