The Inarticulate Renaissance : Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence /

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The Inarticulate Renaissance explores the conceptual potential of the disabled utterance in the English literary Renaissance. What might it have meant, in the sixteenth-century "age of eloquence," to speak indistinctly; to mumble to oneself or to God; to speak unintelligibly to a lover, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mazzio, Carla, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Speech, Intelligibility of.
Speech in literature.
Speech and social status.
Silence in literature.
Rhetoric, Renaissance.
English literature > Early modern.
English language > Early modern.
Eloquence in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Langage > Intelligibilite.
Rhetorique de la Renaissance.
Silence dans la litterature.
Parole dans la litterature.
Langage et statut social > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Langage et statut social > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Anglais (Langue) > 1500-1700 (Moderne) > Histoire.
Éloquence dans la litterature.
Speech and social status > England > History > 17th century.
Speech and social status > England > History > 16th century.
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Renaissance of mumbling: Latinity, reformation polemic, and the mother tongue
  • From fault to figure: the case of Madge Mumblecrust in Ralph Roister Doister
  • Disarticulating community: nation, law, history, and The Spanish tragedy
  • Acting in the passive voice: Love's labour's lost and the melancholy of print
  • Feeling inarticulate: on communal vulnerability and the sense of touch in Lingua and Hamlet.

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