Studies in Shakespeare, Milton and Donne
Author: University of Michigan. Department of English
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: University of Michigan. Department of English
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: University of Michigan. Department of English
Publisher: Phaeton Press, Incorporated
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 256
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 0
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Departments of the University (ANN ARBOR). English Department
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Bryson
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2017-07-10
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1783743514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin’amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur’s phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself – in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history.
Author: Christopher Warley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107681125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why study Renaissance literature? Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton examines six canonical Renaissance works to show that reading literature also means reading class. Warley demonstrates that careful reading offers the best way to understand social relations and in doing so he offers a detailed historical argument about what class means in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a wide range of critics, from Erich Auerbach to Jacques Rancière, from Cleanth Brooks to Theodor Adorno, and from Raymond Williams to Jacques Derrida, the book implicitly defends literary criticism. It reaffirms six Renaissance poems and plays, including poems by Donne, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Milton's Paradise Lost, as the sophisticated and moving works of art that generations of readers have loved. These accessible interpretations also offer exciting new directions for the roles of art and criticism in the contemporary, post-industrial world.
Author: Shakespeare Association of America
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 1034
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes list of members, v. 1, 3-