Author: Hope MirrleesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Counterplot
Author: Hope MirrleesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Limits of Moralizing
Author: David MikicsPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752852
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
"This book argues that critical tradition has obscured the mutually constitutive relation between the didactic mission of Renaissance epic and the pathos of the epic self." "Critics usually see Spenser and Milton either as poets dedicated to an autonomous aesthetic that dictates indulgence in pathos for its own sake, or as Christian moralists who subordinate pathos to the didactic demands of society. The Romantic tradition that stretches from Keats to Harold Bloom exemplifies the former option. Neo-Christian, reader response, and new historicist critics assert a contrary, but similarly unbalanced, view by choosing the didactic authority of social custom, tradition, or ideology over the pathos of subjectivity." "Resisting attempts to establish an absolute priority for either pathos or moralizing, David Mikics looks to the debate between subjective passions and didactic imperatives as a sign of the complex relation between literary creation and social norms. In a study that shies away from new historicist endorsements of the force of normative ideology, as well as late Romantic celebrations of the poetic self, the author finds that Spenser and Milton develop an innovative literary subjectivity under the pressure of the Reformation's moralizing aims." "Incorporating moral force within pathos would allow poetic passion to become a worthy and clearly justifiable public stance. But Spenser and Milton, in their pursuit of this rhetorical ideal, find themselves acknowledging, instead, an enduring disjunction between affect and the discursive forms of public morality which aim to discipline or exploit it."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Leila Or the Siege of Granada
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron LyttonPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Constable of the Tower
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434494446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) was an English historical novelist. His notable works include "The Lancashire Witches," Rookwood," and "The Star Chamber."
Unity
Author: John Davys BeresfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Constable of the Tower
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
At Mrs. Beam's
Author: Charles Kirkpatrick MunroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Valley of Gold
Author: David Armine HowarthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Author: Charles Gibbon