Renaissance Personhood
Title | Renaissance Personhood PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Curran |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2019-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474448100 |
Unfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom.
Renaissance Personhood
Title | Renaissance Personhood PDF eBook |
Author | Curran Kevin Curran |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2019-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474448119 |
Explores the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance periodOffers the first sustained study of the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance periodProvides a study of personhood from a materialist perspectiveModels new way of entering posthumanist critique - animal studies, ecocriticism, and food studies - into conversation with legal theory, cultural history, and literary studiesUnfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom. The book assembles an international team of leading scholars to formulate a new account of personhood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one that starts with the objects, environments and physical processes that made personhood legible.
Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama
Title | Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | John E. Curran |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-05-15 |
Genre | Characters and characteristics in literature |
ISBN | 9781611495263 |
This book explores representations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside Shakespearean exceptionalism, the study reads a wide variety of plays to explain how intellectual context could allow for such characterization.
Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence
Title | Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Kuehn |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780472112449 |
An investigation of the complex social and legal issues surrounding illegitimate offspring in Renaissance Florence
The Watchman in Pieces
Title | The Watchman in Pieces PDF eBook |
Author | David Rosen |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2013-06-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0300156642 |
DIV Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood—what constitutes a self—have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the self. The authors show that, since the Renaissance, changes in observation strategies have driven innovations in literature; literature, in turn, has provided a laboratory and forum for the way we think about surveillance and privacy. Ultimately, they contend that the habits of mind cultivated by literature make rational and self-aware participation in contemporary surveillance environments possible. In a society increasingly dominated by interlocking surveillance systems, these habits of mind are consequently necessary for fully realized liberal citizenship. /div
Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama
Title | Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | John E. Curran |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2014-08-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1644530538 |
Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy studies instantiations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside such fraught questions as the history of Renaissance subjectivity and individualism on the one hand and Shakespearean exceptionalism on the other, we can find that in some plays, by a range of different authors and collaborators, a conception has been evidenced of who a particular person is, and has been used to drive the action. This evidence can take into account a number of internal and external factors that might differentiate a person, and can do so drawing on the intellectual context in a number of ways. Ideas with potential to emphasize the special over the general in envisioning the person might come from training in dialectic (thesis vs hypothesis) or in rhetoric (ethopoeia), from psychological frameworks (casuistry, humor theory, and their interpenetration), or from historiography (exemplarity). But though they depicted what we would call personality only intermittently, and with assumptions different from our own about personhood, dramatists sometimes made a priority of representing the workings of a specific mind: the patterns of thought and feeling that set a person off as that person and define that person singularly rather than categorically. Some individualistic characters can be shown to emerge where we do not expect, such as with Fletcherian personae like Amintor, Arbaces, and Montaigne of The Honest Man’s Fortune; some are drawn by playwrights often uninterested in character, such as Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois, Jonson’s Cicero, and Ford’s Perkin Warbeck; and some appear in being constructed differently from others by the same author, as when Webster’s Bosola is set in contrast to Flamineo, and Marlowe’s Faustus is set against Barabas. But Shakespearean characters are also examined for the particular manner in which each troubles the categorical and exhibits a personality: Othello, Good Duke Humphrey, and Marc Antony. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Renaissance Thought
Title | Renaissance Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Black |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Italy |
ISBN | 9780415205931 |
This is a fascinating collection of essays focusing on humanism and thought and other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philology, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy. An essential read for all students of this era.