Reading the Renaissance: Ideas and Idioms from Shakespeare to MiltonMarc Berley Duquesne University Press, 2003 - 278 Seiten Reading the Renaissance is a timely and compelling answer to a decades-long attack on literature by various schools of critical theory. A collection of new and provocative essays by prominent scholars, it speaks eloquently to the enduring value of Renaissance literature and literary study. Reading Renaissance literature requires what Edward W. Tayler calls "literary tact," the willingness to allow poets their own ideas. A reader might best come to understand Renaissance writers by attending, again and again, to their ideas, idioms, and intentions. "Reading," writes Marc Berley, "is a dangerous act, for how we confront another's genius reveals much about ourselves." The contributors here--Frank Kermode, Marc Berley, Michael Mack, Louis L. Martz, Albert C. Labriola, Anne Lake Prescott, Stanley Stewart, Ernest B. Gilman, Martin Elsky, Anthony Low, Edward W. Tayler--hold that the author, not the critic, is supreme, that the aim of a reader should be, as Ben Jonson urged, to "understand." These scholars focus on the various Renaissance authors they consider, not contemporary theories or schools that might seem to offer totalizing safety. They are committed to the thrill of reading the Renaissance--not the power of rewriting it. This commitment, not coincidentally, leads them to authoritative new readings of major texts. Reading the Renaissance makes a powerful corrective statement about the direction in which Renaissance literary studies should go in the wake of critical theory. Unabashed in detailing wrong turns made by critical theory in recent years, this book will doubtless make waves. But it will be most appreciated for its own considerable accomplishments. The essays here are exemplary--signs of how rich, joyous, and indeed critical, engagement with the Renaissance can be in the twenty-first century. |
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... heart " ( 2.4.155 ) . When they engage the heart in the theater of the mind , words are actions . Saying is doing . 18 Thus Cordelia early : " what I well intend / I'll do't before I speak " ( 1.1.225-26 ) . But Cordelia's words to Lear ...
... heart of stone is replaced by a human heart , one that can suffer with others , one that can give and receive human kindness . If Alonso suffers as a penitent for his past misdeeds , Pros- pero suffers as a victim of those same misdeeds ...
... heart , where Love is nourished . But thine is harder than a rock in the sea ; crueler than a Scythian barbarian ; and the Bear Callisto [ that is , Ursa Major , that compliant nymph who was first ursified , then stellified , and lastly ...
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Jonsons | 12 |
Frank Kermode | 15 |
The Idea of King Lear | 27 |
Urheberrecht | |
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