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Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester
Author: Remains historical and literary connected with the Palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester published by the Chetham Society
Author: Chetham SocietyBarbarous Antiquity
Author: Miriam JacobsonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246322
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater investigated representations of religious and ethnic identity in its portrayals of Turks and Muslims, poetry, Miriam Jacobson argues, explored East-West exchanges primarily through language and the material text. Just as English markets were flooded with exotic goods, so was the English language awash in freshly imported words describing items such as sugar, jewels, plants, spices, paints, and dyes, as well as technological advancements such as the use of Arabic numerals in arithmetic and the concept of zero. Even as these Eastern words and imports found their way into English poetry, poets wrestled with paying homage to classical authors and styles. In Barbarous Antiquity, Jacobson reveals how poems adapted from Latin or Greek sources and set in the ancient classical world were now reoriented to reflect a contemporary, mercantile Ottoman landscape. As Renaissance English writers including Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and Chapman weighed their reliance on classical poetic models against contemporary cultural exchanges, a new form of poetry developed, positioned at the crossroads of East and West, ancient and modern. Building each chapter around the intersection of an Eastern import and a classical model, Jacobson shows how Renaissance English poetry not only reconstructed the classical past but offered a critique of that very enterprise with a new set of words and metaphors imported from the East.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets
Author: Collectanea Anglo-poetica: Or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a Portion of a Collection of Early English Poetry
Author: Thomas CorserFovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets
Author: Gabriel HarveyCatalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets
Author: Gabriel HarveyThe Works of Gabriel Harvey
Author: Gabriel HarveyPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description