Paradoxia Epidemica
Title | Paradoxia Epidemica PDF eBook |
Author | Rosalie Littell Colie |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 2015-12-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1400878403 |
Paradoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious use of paradox not only as a figure of speech but as a mode of thought, a way of perceiving the universe, God, nature, and man himself. The book consists of an introduction (historical and topological) and sixteen chapters grouped according to broad types of paradox: rhetorical, theological, ontological, epistemological. Within this framework the author interprets individual writings or art forms as parts of a rich tradition. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Paradoxia Epidemica
Title | Paradoxia Epidemica PDF eBook |
Author | Rosalie Littell Colie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Literature, Modern |
ISBN |
Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox
Title | Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox PDF eBook |
Author | Peter G. Platt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317056523 |
Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.
Reading Rochester
Title | Reading Rochester PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Burns |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0853230382 |
A collection of new essays exploring all aspects of one of the most intriguing and controversial English poets, the seventeenth-century libertine the Earl of Rochester. Different sections focus on sexual politics, on the poetry of intellect, and on Rochester and his contemporaries. The aim of the book is to read Rochester and to open up the poems to further reading. Rochester's personal notoriety is in a complex relationship to his writing and to the personality he created for himself through that writing. These essays offer a fresh reassessment of the range and quality of a writer only recently widely available, who is currently becoming visible as one of the great writers of his century.
Deformed Discourse
Title | Deformed Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | David Williams |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780773518711 |
Adult survivors of children's stories can be forgiven for thinking the only function of medieval monsters was to fail, just barely, to eat virgins and to die, just barely, under the hero's ministrations. Williams (English, McGill U.) enlarges the view, tracing the poetics of teratology, the study of monsters, to Christian neoplatonic theology, especially the concept that God cannot be known except by knowing what he is not. He also provides a taxonomy of monsters with glosses, and examines the monstrous and deformed in three heroic sagas and three saints' lives. Includes many reproductions. Canadian card order number: C96-900457-5. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
William Shakespeare
Title | William Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 561 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1438113595 |
Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's Perjured Eye
Title | Shakespeare's Perjured Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Fineman |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1986-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780520054868 |
00 Fineman argues that in the sonnets Shakespeare developed an unprecedented poetic persona, one that subsequently became the governing model of all literary subjectivity. Fineman argues that in the sonnets Shakespeare developed an unprecedented poetic persona, one that subsequently became the governing model of all literary subjectivity.