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Author | : Patricia A. Parker |
Publisher | : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
The editors of this book have brought together a collection of first-rate essays that display the range and fecundity of contemporary theory.--Ralph Flores, Philosophy and Literature.
Author | : Andrew Mousley |
Publisher | : MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780333694596 |
Unlike many introductions to literary theory, this text offers a sustained discussion of a specific period of English Literature. Avoiding the danger of employing theories as templates, it uses Renaissance drama and literary theory to question and illuminate each other. Love, money, alienation and exotic death are amongst the various topics discussed. The book also provides a comprehensive account of literary theory's complex relationship with its main predecessor, humanism. In all, 17 plays are discussed including well known texts, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Duchess of Malfi, as well as less studied plays such as The Knight of the Burning Pestle and The Shoemakers' Holiday.
Author | : Brian Vickers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 655 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199261369 |
This wide-ranging compilation of texts illustrates clearly the wide variety of criticism of English literature on offer during the Renaissance period by numerous critics.
Author | : Professor Michele Marrapodi |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1409478424 |
Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and the innovative dramatic practices under the early Stuarts. Contributors respond anew to the process of cultural exchange, cultural transaction, and generic intertextuality involved in the debate on dramatic theory and literary kinds in the Renaissance, exploring, with special emphasis on Shakespeare's works, the level of cultural appropriation, contamination, revision, and subversion characterizing early modern English drama. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories offers a wide range of approaches and critical viewpoints of leading international scholars concerning questions which are still open to debate and which may pave the way to further groundbreaking analyses on Shakespeare's art of dramatic construction and that of his contemporaries.
Author | : Andrew Majeske |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135510008 |
This book accounts for the previously inadequately explained transformation in the meaning of equity in sixteenth century England, a transformation which, intriguingly, first comes to light in literary texts rather than political or legal treatises. The book address the two principal literary works in which the transformation becomes apparent, Thomas More's Utopia and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, and sketches the history of equity to its roots in the Greek concept of epieikeia, uncovering along the way both previously unexplained distinctions, and a long-obscured esoteric meaning. These rediscoveries, when brought to bear upon the Utopia and Faerie Queene, illuminate critical though relatively neglected textual passages that have long puzzled scholars.
Author | : Patricia Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780608037417 |
Author | : Terry Eagleton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 019285318X |
Author | : Michael Hattaway |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470998725 |
This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.
Author | : C. S. Lewis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107658926 |
An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
Author | : John Lee |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2017-11-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1118458788 |
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