Resistant structures : particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts /

Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Strier, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
Series:New historicism ; 34.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature and history > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and history > England > History > 17th century.
Particularity (Aesthetics)
Radicalism in literature.
Renaissance > England.
Littérature anglaise > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Littérature et histoire > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Littérature et histoire > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Particularité (Esthétique)
Radicalisme dans la littérature.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
Littérature anglaise > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature and history.
Renaissance.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Against schemes: "Tradition" ; "Self consumption" ; "Theory" ; "New historicism"
  • pt. 2. Against received ideas: Impossible worldliness : "devout humanism" ; Appendix : Impossible transcendence ; Impossible radicalism I : Donne and freedom of conscience ; Impossible radicalism II : Shakespeare and disobedience ; Impossible radicalism and impossible value : Nahum Tate's King Lear.

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