The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance: Proportion PoeticalPennsylvania State University Press, 1994 - 214 Seiten During the sixteenth century in England the logocentrism of the Middle Ages was confronted by a materialism that heralded the modern world. With remarkable tenacity in music, poetry, and painting, the orthodox aesthetic persisted as formal features which served as nonverbal signs and provided a subtext of form. In opposition, however, a radical aesthetic emerged to accommodate the new attention to physical nature. The growing force of materialism occasioned a fundamental rethinking of what an artifact might represent and how that representation might be achieved. This book explores the ontological and epistemological issues that poststructuralist thought raises about that shift in our cultural history. In doing so, it charts a course for Renaissance studies, now in disarray, that avoids the old positivism while not succumbing to the new nihilism. |
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... octave and sestet with con- cluding couplet assures eventual arrival in the presence of God . The form itself promises salvation . ] The significance I assign to the mathematical arrangement of the octave / sestet is corroborated by a ...
... octave and a sestet.1o The eight lines of the octave rhyme a ba ba ba b ; the six lines of the ses- tet rhyme c d cdcd . " 9. Jensen , 39. For “ a literal translation ” of this quatorzain , and an examination of the verbal system that ...
... octave and sestet , and the significance of the proportion 8/6 . When reduced to its lowest ratio , this proportion becomes the relationship between 4 and 3 , actually the operative mathematical relationship in this particular verse ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
Urheberrecht | |
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