Author: Marietta ChicorelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Chicorel Index to Poetry in Anthologies and Collections in Print
Author: Marietta ChicorelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Merlin
Author: Peter H. GoodrichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135583404
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Renaissance Bible
Author: Debora K. ShugerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520213876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The book treats the Protestant cultures of northern Europe, particularly England, examining biblical commentaries, plays, poems, sermons, and treatises, as well as the often startling negotiations between these texts and other cultural discourses. In Shuger's hands, these biblical materials serve to illuminate, and often radically reinterpret, the dominant issues in contemporary Renaissance studies: gender, the body, colonialism, subjectivity, desire, law, and history. Her work forcefully demonstrates the cultural centrality of Renaissance religion.
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture
Author: Steven W. MayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198878001
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century. The main medieval writing surfaces of parchment and wax tablets were augmented by a writing medium that was both lasting and cheap enough to be expendable. Writing was transformed from a near monopoly of professional scribes employed by the upper class to a practice ordinary citizens could afford. Personal correspondence, business records, notebooks on all sorts of subjects, creative writing, and much more flourished at social levels where they had previously been excluded by the high cost of parchment. Steven W. May places literary manuscripts and in particular poetic anthologies in this larger scribal context, showing how its innovative features affected both authorship and readership. As this amateur scribal culture developed, the medieval professional culture expanded as well. Classes of documents formerly restricted to parchment often shifted over to paper, while entirely new classes of documents were added to the records of church and state as these institutions took advantage of relatively inexpensive paper. Paper stimulated original composition by making it possible to draft, revise, and rewrite works in this new, affordable medium. Amateur scribes were soon producing an enormous volume of manuscript works of all kinds--works they could afford to circulate in multiple copies. England's ever-increasing literate population developed an informal network that transmitted all kinds of texts from single sheets to book-length documents efficiently throughout the kingdom. The operation of restrictive coteries had little if any role in the mass circulation of manuscripts through this network. However, paper was cheap enough that manuscripts could also be readily disposed of (unlike expensive parchment). More than 90% of the output from this scribal tradition has been lost, a fact that tends to distort our understanding and interpretation of what has survived. May illustrates these conclusions with close analysis of representative manuscripts.
A History of European Literature
Author: Walter CohenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198732678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literature's ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe-during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of today's global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.
Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
Author: David NorbrookPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199247189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists, responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.
The Book of the Courtier
Author: Baldassarre CastiglionePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Fated Sky
Author: Benson BobrickPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743268954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
'The Fated Sky' looks at famous figures and important historical events that were influenced by astrology.
Handbook of English Renaissance Literature
Author: Ingo BerensmeyerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110444887
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.
English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century
Author: Gary F. WallerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317895584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Explores the poetry of the Renaissance, from Dunbar in the late 15th century to the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne in the early 17th. The book offers more than the wealth of literature discussed: it is a pioneering work in its own right, bringing the insights of contemporary literary and cultural theory to an overview of the period.