Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781134844173
ISBN-13 : 1134844174
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Synopsis Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry by : Isabel Rivers

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.

Representing the English Renaissance

Representing the English Renaissance
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 0520061306
ISBN-13 : 9780520061309
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Representing the English Renaissance by : Stephen Greenblatt

"An exciting collection of essays on English Renaissance literature and culture, this book contributes substantially to the contemporary renaissance in historical modes of critical inquiry."--Margaret W. Ferguson, Columbia University "An exciting collection of essays on English Renaissance literature and culture, this book contributes substantially to the contemporary renaissance in historical modes of critical inquiry."--Margaret W. Ferguson, Columbia University

Renaissance Realism

Renaissance Realism
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 0199259585
ISBN-13 : 9780199259588
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Renaissance Realism by : Alastair Fowler

Early narratives have tended to be critiqued as novels, an approach that misses their distinctive Renaissance realism. Alastair Fowler surveys picturing and perspective from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, drawing analogies between literature and visual art. The book is based on the history of the narrative imagination after single-point perspective. The habit of an older, multi-point perspective long continued, accounting for "anachronism," discontinuous realism, "double time-schemes," and depiction of different moments as simultaneous.

Ground-Work

Ground-Work
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9780271093536
ISBN-13 : 0271093536
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Ground-Work by : Hillary Eklund

How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time? This collection brings focused scholarly attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as a feature of the physical world, aiming to correct faulty assumptions that cloud our understanding of early modern ecological thought: that natural resources were then poorly understood and recklessly managed, and that cultural practices developed in an adversarial relationship with natural processes. Moreover, these essays elucidate the links between humans and the lands they inhabit, both then and now.

A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies

A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 462
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ISBN-10 : 9781118458785
ISBN-13 : 1118458788
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies by : John Lee

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

Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance

Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0802080472
ISBN-13 : 9780802080479
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance by : Debora K. Shuger

By examining orthodox methods of thought in the Renaissance, the author tries to reconstruct a picture of the dominant culture of the period in England between 1580 and 1630.

Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature

Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780228004547
ISBN-13 : 0228004543
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature by : John S. Garrison

Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.

The Discarded Image

The Discarded Image
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781107604704
ISBN-13 : 1107604702
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Discarded Image by : C. S. Lewis

Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.