Vagrant writing : social and semiotic disorders in the English renaissance /

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Vagrant Writing addresses the semiotic dimension of social change in Renaissance England. Barry Taylor explores what happens to Tudor and Jacobean practices of writing when the ideology of the Word which underpins them must interpret, regulate and contain a social order undergoing radical transforma...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taylor, Barry
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 1991.
Series:Theory/culture series ; 9.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 17th century.
Semiotics and literature.
Renaissance > England.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Sémiotique et littérature.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern.
Literature and society.
Renaissance.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Vagrancy as Writing/Vagrant Writing; 1. The Semiotics of Settlement: Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity; 2. Narcissus and the Usurer; 3. George Gascoigne: Writing Vagrantly; 4. The Instrumentality of Ornament': George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie; 5. Mortality and the Utility of Courtship: Castiglione's Book of the Courtier; 6. The Radiant and the Reflective: Courtly Authority and Crisis in Jonson's Masques and Cynthia's Revels; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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