Renaissance Tropologies : The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England /

"Twelve essays by Renaissance scholars extend the theoretical analysis and application of four tropes -- theater, moment, journey, and ambassadorship -- in examining works by Shakespeare, Donne, and others as a way of providing access into the thought and worldview of early modern England"...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shami, Jeanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, 2008.
Colección:Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature and history > England > History > 17th century.
Literature and history > England > History > 16th century.
Language and culture > England > History > 17th century.
Language and culture > England > History > 16th century.
Rhetoric, Renaissance > England.
Figures of speech in literature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
England > Civilization > 17th century.
England > Civilization > 16th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Rex absconditus: justice, presence, and legitimacy in Measure for measure / Gale H. Carrithers Jr. and James D. Hardy Jr.
  • 2. Salvific moments in John Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions / Eric C. Brown
  • 3. Donne and the state of exception / Greg Kneidel
  • 4. Troping religious identity: circumcision and transubstantiation in Donne's sermons / Jeanne Shami
  • 5. Vaughan's Life of Paulinus: recharting the royalist journey / Susannah Monta
  • 6. Journey and ambassadorship in the marriage literature for Mary Tudor (1496/1533) / A. E. B. Coldiron
  • 7. Eucharistic semiotics and the representational formulas of Donne's Ambassadors / Alexandra Mills Block
  • 8. Donne and diplomacy / Hugh Adlington
  • 9. Dangerous liaisons: "Spider love" in Donne's "Twicknam Garden" / Albert C. Labriola
  • 10. Mirror tropes and Renaissance poetry / Ilona Bell
  • 11. The ars longa trope in a sublunary world / Kate Narveson
  • 12. Habits of thought, structures of feeling / Stephen Pender.

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