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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Elizabethan Sonnet-cycles: Delia, by S. Daniel. Diana, by H. Constable
Author: Elizabethan Sonnet-cycles: Delia, by S. Daniel. Diana, by H. Constable
Author: Martha Foote CrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Elizabethan Sonnet-cycles: Daniel, S. Delia; Constable, H. Diana
Author: Martha Foote CrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Delia, by S. Daniel. Diana, by H. Constable
Author: Elizabethan Sonnet-cycles
Author: Samuel DanielImpossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry
Author: Wendy Beth HymanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192574418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments or promises, but instead focus on the lovers' anticipated decline, and--quite stunningly given the Reformation context--humanity's relegation not to a Christian afterlife but to a Marvellian 'desert of vast Eternity.' In this way, a poetic trope whose classical form was an expression of pragmatic Epicureanism became, during the religious upheaval of the Reformation, an unlikely but effective vehicle for articulating religious doubt. Its ambitions were thus largely philosophical, and came to incorporate investigations into the nature of matter, time, and poetic representation. Renaissance seduction poets invited their auditors to participate in a dangerous intellectual game, one whose primary interest was expanding the limits of knowledge. The book theorizes how Renaissance lyric's own fragile relationship to materiality and time, and its self-conscious relationship to making, positioned it to grapple with these 'impossible' metaphysical and representational problems. Although attentive to poetics, the book also challenges the commonplace view that the erotic invitation is exclusively a lyrical mode. Carpe diem's revival in post-Reformation Europe portends its radicalization, as debates between man and maid are dramatized in disputes between abstractions like chastity and material facts like death. Offered here is thus a theoretical reconsideration of the generic parameters and aspirations of the carpe diem trope, wherein questions about embodiment and knowledge are also investigations into the potentialities of literary form.
Publishers' Weekly
Author: The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Bulletin of the Toronto Public Library
Author: Toronto Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-