Author: John Huntington
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026287
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England focuses on the early work of George Chapman and on the writings of others who shared his social agenda and his nonprivileged status, including Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and Edmund Spenser as well as neglected writers such as Matthew Roydon and Aemilia Lanyer. Rather than placing poetry in the service of traditional social purposes - pleasing a patron, wooing a woman, displaying one's courtly skill, teaching morality - these writers held up poetry as important for its own sake: an idea taken for granted in much modern aesthetics."--Jacket.
Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England
Author: John Huntington
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026287
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England focuses on the early work of George Chapman and on the writings of others who shared his social agenda and his nonprivileged status, including Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and Edmund Spenser as well as neglected writers such as Matthew Roydon and Aemilia Lanyer. Rather than placing poetry in the service of traditional social purposes - pleasing a patron, wooing a woman, displaying one's courtly skill, teaching morality - these writers held up poetry as important for its own sake: an idea taken for granted in much modern aesthetics."--Jacket.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026287
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England focuses on the early work of George Chapman and on the writings of others who shared his social agenda and his nonprivileged status, including Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and Edmund Spenser as well as neglected writers such as Matthew Roydon and Aemilia Lanyer. Rather than placing poetry in the service of traditional social purposes - pleasing a patron, wooing a woman, displaying one's courtly skill, teaching morality - these writers held up poetry as important for its own sake: an idea taken for granted in much modern aesthetics."--Jacket.
Ambition, A History
Author: William Casey King
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Looks at how ambition, once considered a vice, became a celebrated virtue that defines American character.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Looks at how ambition, once considered a vice, became a celebrated virtue that defines American character.
Marlowe's Ovid
Author: M. L. Stapleton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317100336
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The first book of its kind, Marlowe's Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies-Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amores-and Marlowe's own dramatic and poetic works. Stapleton carefully considers Marlowe's Elegies in the context of his seven known dramatic works and his epyllion, Hero and Leander, and offers a different way to read Marlowe. Stapleton employs Marlowe's rendition of the Amores as a way to read his seven dramatic productions and his narrative poetry while engaging with previous scholarship devoted to the accuracy of the translation and to bibliographical issues. The author focuses on four main principles: the intertextual relationship of the Elegies to the rest of the author's canon; its reflection of the influence of Erasmian humanist pedagogy, imitatio and aemulatio; its status as the standard English Amores until the Glorious Revolution, part of the larger phenomenon of pan-European Renaissance Ovidianism; its participation in the genre of the sonnet sequence. He explores how translating the Amores into the Elegies profited Marlowe as a writer, a kind of literary archaeology that explains why he may have commenced such an undertaking. Marlowe's Ovid adds to the body of scholarly work in a number of subfields, including classical influences in English literature, translation, sexuality in literature, early modern poetry and drama, and Marlowe and his milieu.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317100336
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The first book of its kind, Marlowe's Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies-Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amores-and Marlowe's own dramatic and poetic works. Stapleton carefully considers Marlowe's Elegies in the context of his seven known dramatic works and his epyllion, Hero and Leander, and offers a different way to read Marlowe. Stapleton employs Marlowe's rendition of the Amores as a way to read his seven dramatic productions and his narrative poetry while engaging with previous scholarship devoted to the accuracy of the translation and to bibliographical issues. The author focuses on four main principles: the intertextual relationship of the Elegies to the rest of the author's canon; its reflection of the influence of Erasmian humanist pedagogy, imitatio and aemulatio; its status as the standard English Amores until the Glorious Revolution, part of the larger phenomenon of pan-European Renaissance Ovidianism; its participation in the genre of the sonnet sequence. He explores how translating the Amores into the Elegies profited Marlowe as a writer, a kind of literary archaeology that explains why he may have commenced such an undertaking. Marlowe's Ovid adds to the body of scholarly work in a number of subfields, including classical influences in English literature, translation, sexuality in literature, early modern poetry and drama, and Marlowe and his milieu.
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
Author: Book Builders LLC.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108699
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108699
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.
Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes
Author: Jessica Wolfe
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442622687
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer’s epic poems – the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him – served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger and the value of strife, embracing his works as a mythographic shorthand with which to describe and interpret the era’s intellectual, political, and theological struggles. Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes elegantly exposes the ways in which writers and thinkers as varied as Erasmus, Rabelais, Spenser, Milton, and Hobbes presented Homer as a great champion of conflict or its most eloquent critic. Jessica Wolfe weaves together an exceptional range of sources, including manuscript commentaries, early modern marginalia, philosophical and political treatises, and the visual arts. Wolfe’s transnational and multilingual study is a landmark work in the study of classical reception that has a great deal to offer to anyone examining the literary, political, and intellectual life of early modern Europe.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442622687
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer’s epic poems – the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him – served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger and the value of strife, embracing his works as a mythographic shorthand with which to describe and interpret the era’s intellectual, political, and theological struggles. Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes elegantly exposes the ways in which writers and thinkers as varied as Erasmus, Rabelais, Spenser, Milton, and Hobbes presented Homer as a great champion of conflict or its most eloquent critic. Jessica Wolfe weaves together an exceptional range of sources, including manuscript commentaries, early modern marginalia, philosophical and political treatises, and the visual arts. Wolfe’s transnational and multilingual study is a landmark work in the study of classical reception that has a great deal to offer to anyone examining the literary, political, and intellectual life of early modern Europe.
Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England
Author: Christopher Warley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521842549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Since the 1970s there has been a broad and vital reinterpretation of the nature of literary texts, a move away from formalism to a sense of literature as an aspect of social, economic, political, and cultural history. While the earliest New Historicist work was criticized for a narrow and anecdotal view of history, it also served as an important stimulus for post-structuralist, feminist, Marxist, and psychoanalytical work, which in turn has increasingly informed and redirected it. Recent writing on the nature of representation, the historical construction of gender and of the concept of identity itself, on theatre as a political and economic phenomenon, and on the ideologies of art generally, reveals the breadth of the field. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture is designed to offer historically oriented studies of Renaissance literature and theatre which make use of the insights afforded by theoretical perspectives. The view of history envisioned is above all a view of our history, a reading of the Renaissance for and from our own time. Book jacket.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521842549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Since the 1970s there has been a broad and vital reinterpretation of the nature of literary texts, a move away from formalism to a sense of literature as an aspect of social, economic, political, and cultural history. While the earliest New Historicist work was criticized for a narrow and anecdotal view of history, it also served as an important stimulus for post-structuralist, feminist, Marxist, and psychoanalytical work, which in turn has increasingly informed and redirected it. Recent writing on the nature of representation, the historical construction of gender and of the concept of identity itself, on theatre as a political and economic phenomenon, and on the ideologies of art generally, reveals the breadth of the field. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture is designed to offer historically oriented studies of Renaissance literature and theatre which make use of the insights afforded by theoretical perspectives. The view of history envisioned is above all a view of our history, a reading of the Renaissance for and from our own time. Book jacket.
Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England
Author: Jane Partner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319710176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry’s own relation to truth. Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England brings together an innovative selection of texts and images to construct a new interdisciplinary context for interpreting the poetry of Cavendish, Traherne, Marvell and Milton. Each chapter presents a reappraisal of vision in the work of one of these authors, and these case studies also combine to offer a broader consideration of the ways that conceptions of seeing were used in poetry to explore the relations between the ‘inward’ life of the viewer and the ‘outward’ reality that lies beyond; terms that are shown to have been closely linked, through ideas about sight, with the emergence of the fundamental modern categories of the ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’. This book will be of interest to literary scholars, art historians and historians of science.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319710176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry’s own relation to truth. Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England brings together an innovative selection of texts and images to construct a new interdisciplinary context for interpreting the poetry of Cavendish, Traherne, Marvell and Milton. Each chapter presents a reappraisal of vision in the work of one of these authors, and these case studies also combine to offer a broader consideration of the ways that conceptions of seeing were used in poetry to explore the relations between the ‘inward’ life of the viewer and the ‘outward’ reality that lies beyond; terms that are shown to have been closely linked, through ideas about sight, with the emergence of the fundamental modern categories of the ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’. This book will be of interest to literary scholars, art historians and historians of science.
NOTES
Author: Steve Rushton
Publisher: Contemporary Literature Press
ISBN: 6067601796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Prompted by the two thousandth anniversary of Ovid's death, this book traces a line from Ancient Rome via Renaissance and Restoration London to a present day interpretation of cultural history. Part poetry collection, part research project, written with wit appropriate to its subject by an author presenting himself as both challenging and playful, NOTES entertains, informs and provokes, and is beautifully illustrated by the author's colourful abstract paintings. This version of NOTES is a 2023 revision of a text published by Contemporary Literature Press, the online publishing house of The University of Bucharest, in 2019. A related text, Various Wanted (MARGENTO, Steve Rushton, Taner Murat, Timpul 2021, ISBN 978-973-612-839-4) is also available on Google Play and Google Books.
Publisher: Contemporary Literature Press
ISBN: 6067601796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Prompted by the two thousandth anniversary of Ovid's death, this book traces a line from Ancient Rome via Renaissance and Restoration London to a present day interpretation of cultural history. Part poetry collection, part research project, written with wit appropriate to its subject by an author presenting himself as both challenging and playful, NOTES entertains, informs and provokes, and is beautifully illustrated by the author's colourful abstract paintings. This version of NOTES is a 2023 revision of a text published by Contemporary Literature Press, the online publishing house of The University of Bucharest, in 2019. A related text, Various Wanted (MARGENTO, Steve Rushton, Taner Murat, Timpul 2021, ISBN 978-973-612-839-4) is also available on Google Play and Google Books.
Renaissance Historicisms
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874130010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This collection of essays by major Renaissance scholars demonstrates the vitality and variety of current historical approaches to studying early modern England - itself developing new ways to view the past. Here are, for example, a hitherto unpublished memoir, a discussion of Shakespeare's printed texts, new biographical approaches to Tudor writers, the recovery of manuscript sources, the tracing of intertextual relations, the impact of Renaissance humanism, and close readings that join an understanding of words' ambiguity to a refreshed awareness of historical context. --From publisher's description.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874130010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This collection of essays by major Renaissance scholars demonstrates the vitality and variety of current historical approaches to studying early modern England - itself developing new ways to view the past. Here are, for example, a hitherto unpublished memoir, a discussion of Shakespeare's printed texts, new biographical approaches to Tudor writers, the recovery of manuscript sources, the tracing of intertextual relations, the impact of Renaissance humanism, and close readings that join an understanding of words' ambiguity to a refreshed awareness of historical context. --From publisher's description.
Various Wanted / Se caută diversuri
Author: MARGENTO
Publisher: Timpul
ISBN: 9736128393
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In English and Romanian, inspired by Ovid, rewired for the 21st century in post-modern variants, a poem about writing a poem about translations of Ovid is an absent starting point for five completely different riffs on the same theme, from the computational to the visually abstract, from the historical to rock and roll.
Publisher: Timpul
ISBN: 9736128393
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In English and Romanian, inspired by Ovid, rewired for the 21st century in post-modern variants, a poem about writing a poem about translations of Ovid is an absent starting point for five completely different riffs on the same theme, from the computational to the visually abstract, from the historical to rock and roll.