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Author: Patricia A. Parker
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Professor Michele Marrapodi
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1409478424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Charles Sears Baldwin
Publisher:
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interprets the rhetoric and poetry of the Renaissance afresh from typical theory and practice as the first step toward interpreting those traditions of criticism which were most influential in the middle ages.
Author: Robert Matz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-07-27
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1139426567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? This book, first published in 2000, analyses Renaissance literary theory in the context of social transformations of the period, focusing on conflicting ideas about gentility that emerged as the English aristocracy evolved from a feudal warrior class to a civil elite. Through close readings centered on works by Thomas Elyot, Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser, Matz argues that literature attempted to mediate a complex set of contradictory social expectations. His original study engages with important theoretical work such as Pierre Bourdieu's and offers a substantial critique of New Historicist theory. It challenges recent accounts of the power of Renaissance authorship, emphasizing the uncertain status of literature during this time of cultural change, and sheds light on why and how canonical works became canonical.
Author: Andrew Mousley
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 2000-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780333694596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Andrew Majeske
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1135510075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1107658926
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
Author: Brian Vickers
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 9780199261369
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-08-28
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 147252831X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more than a decade literary criticism has been thought to be in a post-theory age. Despite this, the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault and new writers such as Agamben and Ranciere continue to be central to literary studies. Literary Criticism in the 21st Century explores the explosion of new theoretical approaches that has seen a renaissance in theory and its importance in the institutional settings of the humanities today. Literary Criticism in the 21st Century covers such issues as: The institutional history of theory in the academy The case against theory, from the 1970s to today Critical reading, theory and the wider world Keystone works in contemporary theory New directions and theory's many futures Written with an engagingly personal and accessible approach that brings theory vividly to life, this is a passionate defence of theory and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.
