Humanism Reading And English Literature 1430 1530
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Humanism Reading English Literature 1430 1530
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Author : Daniel Wakelin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2007-06-28
Humanism Reading English Literature 1430 1530 written by Daniel Wakelin and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-28 with Art categories.
Wakelin uses new methods and theories in the history of reading to uncover fresh information about the design, ownership, and marginalia of books in a neglected period in English literary history. This is the first book to identify the origins of the humanist tradition in England in the 15th century.
Humanism Reading English Literature 1430 1530
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Author : Daniel Wakelin
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-06-28
Humanism Reading English Literature 1430 1530 written by Daniel Wakelin and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Humanism is usually thought to come to England in the early sixteenth century. In this book, however, Daniel Wakelin uncovers the almost unknown influences of humanism on English literature in the preceding hundred years. He considers the humanist influences on the reception of some of Chaucer's work and on the work of important authors such as Lydgate, Bokenham, Caxton, and Medwall, and in many anonymous or forgotten translations, political treatises, and documents from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. At the heart of his study is a consideration of William Worcester, the fifteenth-century scholar. Wakelin can trace the influence of humanism much earlier than was thought, because he examines evidence in manuscripts and early printed books of the English study and imitation of antiquity, in polemical marginalia on classical works, and in the ways in which people copied and shared classical works and translations. He also examines how various English works were shaped by such reading habits and, in turn, how those English works reshaped the reading habits of the wider community. Humanism thus, contrary to recent strictures against it, appears not as 'top-down' dissemination, but as a practical process of give-and-take between writers and readers. Humanism thus also prompts writers to imagine their potential readerships in ways which challenge them to re-imagine the political community and the intellectual freedom of the reader. Our views both of the fifteenth century and of humanist literature in English are transformed.
Humanism Reading And English Literature 1430 1530
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Author : Dr. Daniel Wakelin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Humanism Reading And English Literature 1430 1530 written by Dr. Daniel Wakelin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
"Humanism is usually thought to come to England in the early sixteenth century. In this book, however, Daniel Wakelin uncovers the almost unknown influences of humanism on English literature in the preceding hundred years. He considers the humanist influences on the reception of some of Chaucer's work and on the work of important authors such as Lydgate, Bokenham, Caxton, and Medwall, and in many anonymous or forgotten translations, political treatises, and documents from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. At the heart of his study is a consideration of William Worcester, the fifteenth-century scholar."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Medieval Into Renaissance
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Author : Matthew Woodcock
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2016
Medieval Into Renaissance written by Matthew Woodcock and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essays on topics of literary interest crossing the boundaries between the medieval and early modern period.
Renaissance Literature And Linguistic Creativity
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Author : James Harmer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-31
Renaissance Literature And Linguistic Creativity written by James Harmer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late sixteenth century. It considers the reflections of Renaissance English writers upon the problem of how linguistic meaning is created in their work. The book achieves this consideration by placing its Renaissance authors in the context of the dominant conceptualisation of the thought-language relationship in the Western tradition: namely, that of 'introspection'. In taking this route, author James Harmer undertakes to provide a comprehensive overview of the notion of 'introspection' from classical times to the Renaissance, and demonstrates how complex and even strange this notion is often seen to be by thinkers and writers. Harmer also shows how poetry and literary discourse in general stands at the centre of the conceptual consideration of what linguistic thinking is. He then argues, through a range of close readings of Renaissance texts, that writers of the Shakespearean period increase the fragility of the notion of 'introspection' in such a way as to make the prospect of any systematic theory of meaning seem extremely remote. Embracing and exploring the possibility that thinking about meaning can only occur in the context of extreme cognitive and psychological limitation, these texts emerge as proponents of a human mind which is remarkably free in its linguistic nature; an irresistible mode of life unto itself. The final argumentative stratum of the book explores the implications of this approach for understanding the relationship between literary criticism, philosophy, and other kinds of critical activity. Texts discussed at length include Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and shorter poetry, George Chapman's Ovids Banquet of Sence, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, and John Donne's Elegies.
Self Commentary In Early Modern European Literature 1400 1700
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Author : Francesco Venturi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Self Commentary In Early Modern European Literature 1400 1700 written by Francesco Venturi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Literary Collections categories.
An investigation into the various ways in which Renaissance writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves in Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the Dutch Republic.
The Renaissance Reform Of The Book And Britain
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Author : David Rundle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-02
The Renaissance Reform Of The Book And Britain written by David Rundle and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-02 with History categories.
Reform of the script was central to the humanist agenda - this book suggests a new explanation of its international success.
The Typographic Imaginary In Early Modern English Literature
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Author : Rachel Stenner
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2018-07-04
The Typographic Imaginary In Early Modern English Literature written by Rachel Stenner and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern English literature engages imaginatively with printing and this book both characterizes that engagement and proposes the typographic imaginary as a framework for its analysis. Certain texts, Rachel Stenner states, describe the people, places, concerns, and processes of printing in ways that, over time, generate their own figurative authority. The typographic imaginary is posited as a literary phenomenon shared by different writers, a wider cultural understanding of printing, and a critical concept for unpicking the particular imaginative otherness that printing introduced to literature. Authors use the typographic imaginary to interrogate their place in an evolving media environment, to assess the value of the printed text, and to analyse the roles of other text-producing agents. This book treats a broad array of authors and forms: printers’ manuals; William Caxton’s paratexts; the pamphlet dialogues of Robert Copland and Ned Ward; poetic miscellanies; the prose fictions of William Baldwin, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Nashe; the poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser; writings by John Taylor and Alexander Pope. At its broadest, this study contributes to an understanding of how technology changes cultures. Located at the crossroads between literary, material, and book historical research, the particular intervention that this work makes is threefold. In describing the typographic imaginary, it proposes a new framework for analysis of print culture. It aims to focus critical engagement on symbolic representations of material forms. Finally, it describes a lineage of late medieval and early modern authors, stretching from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, that are linked by their engagement of a particular aesthetic.
English Readers Of Catholic Saints
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Author : Judy Ann Ford
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-18
English Readers Of Catholic Saints written by Judy Ann Ford and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-18 with History categories.
In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language books, issued The Golden Legend, a translation of the most well-known collection of saints’ lives in Europe. This study analyzes the molding of the Legenda aurea into a book that powerfully attracted the English market. Modifications included not only illustrations and changes in the arrangement of chapters, but also the addition of lives of British saints and translated excerpts from the Bible, showing an appetite for vernacular scripture and stories about England’s past. The publication history of Caxton’s Golden Legend reveals attitudes towards national identity and piety within the context of English print culture during the half century prior to the Henrician Reformation.
A Critical Companion To John Skelton
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Author : Sebastian I. Sobecki
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2018
A Critical Companion To John Skelton written by Sebastian I. Sobecki and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.
Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research, and opens up new avenues for future studies.
