Sixteenth-century British Nondramatic Writers
Title | Sixteenth-century British Nondramatic Writers PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Richardson |
Publisher | Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Essays on the remarkably diverse British writers referred to as "Renaissance authors" during the "Age of the Tudors." Writers who produced both prose and verse on virtually every subject in a variety of nondramatic genres.
The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose
Title | The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Loughlin |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 1333 |
Release | 2011-10-24 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1551111624 |
The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose makes available not only extensive selections from the works of canonical writers, but also substantial extracts from writers who have either been neglected in earlier anthologies or only relatively recently come to the attention of twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholars and teachers. Popular fiction and prose nonfiction are especially well represented, including selections from popular romances, merchant fiction, sensation pamphlets, sermons, and ballads. The texts are extensively annotated, with notes both explaining unfamiliar words and providing cultural and historical contexts.
Sixteenth-century British Nondramatic Writers
Title | Sixteenth-century British Nondramatic Writers PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Richardson |
Publisher | Detroit : Gale Research |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Authors, English |
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Essays on the remarkably diverse British writers referred to as "Renaissance authors" during the "Age of the Tudors." Writers who produced both prose and verse on virtually every subject in a variety of nondramatic genres.
Humanism and Good Books in Sixteenth-Century England
Title | Humanism and Good Books in Sixteenth-Century England PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine C. Little |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2023-02-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192883216 |
This book explores sixteenth-century humanism as an origin for the idea of literature as good, even great, books. It argues that humanists located the value of books not only in the goodness of their writing-their eloquence—but also in their capacity to shape readers in good and bad behavior, thoughts, and feelings, in other words, in their morality. To approach humanism in this way, by attending to its moral interests, is to provide a new perspective on periodization, the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance / early modern. That is, humanists did not so much rupture with medieval ideas about literature or with medieval models as they adapted and altered them, offering a new confidence about an old idea: the moral instructiveness of pagan, classical texts for Christian readers. This revaluation of literature was a double-edged sword. On the one hand, humanist confidence inspired authors to invent their own good books—good in style and morals—in morality plays such as Everyman and the Christian Terence tradition and in educational treatises such as Sir Thomas Elyot's Boke of the Governour. On the other hand, humanism placed a new burden on authors, requiring their work to teach and delight. In the wake of humanism, authors struggled to articulate the value of their work for readers, returning to a pre-humanist path that they associated with Geoffrey Chaucer. This medieval-inflected doubt pervades the late sixteenth-century writings of the most prolific and influential Elizabethans-Robert Greene, George Gascoigne, and Edmund Spenser.
British Reform Writers, 1832-1914
Title | British Reform Writers, 1832-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Kelly |
Publisher | Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Essays on British reform writers during a time when Britain struggled to establish a new and stable political, social and economic order. Includes major writers as well as others known mainly as sociopolitical thinkers, reformers, and socialists as well as reform oriented critics and educators.
Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry
Title | Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Cheney |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2011-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1444396552 |
Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres Poems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare’s major poems - Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint- in the context of his dramatic career Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler
Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts
Title | Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Annette Wilson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317071581 |
Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new collection of essays analyses the impact of the logician, rhetorician and pedagogical innovator across a variety of countries and intellectual disciplines, reappraising Ramus in the light of scholarly developments in the fifty years since the publication of Walter Ong's seminal work Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue. Chapters reflect the broad impact of Ramus and the Ramist 'method' of teaching across many subjects, including logic and rhetoric, pedagogy, mathematics, philosophy, and new scientific and taxonomic developments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There is no current work that offers such a broad survey of Ramus and Ramism, or that looks at him in such an interdisciplinary fashion. Ramus' influence extended across many disciplines and this book skillfully weaves together studies in intellectual history, pedagogy, literature, philosophy and the history of science. It will prove a useful starting point for those interested in Ramus and his impact, as well as serving to redefine the field of Ramist studies for future scholars.