The Renaissance Epic And The Oral Past
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The Renaissance Epic And The Oral Past
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Author : Anthony Welch
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-27
The Renaissance Epic And The Oral Past written by Anthony Welch and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors. Welch shows how the period’s writers imagined lost civilizations built on speech and song—from Homeric Greece and Celtic Britain to the Americas—and struggled to reconcile this oral inheritance with an early modern culture of the book. Welch’s wide-ranging study offers a new perspective on Renaissance Europe’s epic literature and its troubled relationship with antiquity.
The Epic A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Anthony Welch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-11-28
The Epic A Very Short Introduction written by Anthony Welch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
The epic is an ancient, diverse, and global art form. This Very Short Introduction aims to showcase the scope and variety of epic storytelling around the world. Welch takes a global approach that traces key resemblances between the European classics and traditional heroic poetry from Africa, Central Asia, and the Near East.
Heroic Awe
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Author : Kelly Lehtonen
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2022-12-01
Heroic Awe written by Kelly Lehtonen and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the Renaissance, the most renowned model of epic poetry was Virgil’s Aeneid, a poem promoting an influential concept of heroism based on the commitment to one’s nation and gods. However, Longinus’ theory of the sublime – newly recovered during the Renaissance – contradicted this absolute devotion to nation as a marker of religious piety. Heroic Awe explores how Renaissance epic poetry used the sublime to challenge the assumption that epic heroism was primarily about civic duty and glorification of state. The book demonstrates how the significant investment of Renaissance epic poetry in Longinus’ theory of the sublime reshaped the genre of epic. To do so, Kelly Lehtonen examines the intersection between the Longinian sublime and early modern Protestant and Catholic discourses in Renaissance poems such as the Gerusalemme Liberata, Les Semaines, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost. In illuminating the role of Longinus along with that of religious discourses, Heroic Awe offers a new perspective on epic heroism in Renaissance epic poetry, redefining heroism as the capacity to be overwhelmed emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually by encounters with divine glory. In considering the links between religion, the sublime, and epic, the book aims to shed new light on several core topics in early modern studies, including epic heroism, Renaissance philosophy, theories of emotion, and the psychology of religion.
History And Warfare In Renaissance Epic
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Author : Michael Murrin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1994
History And Warfare In Renaissance Epic written by Michael Murrin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Michael Murrin here offers the first analysis to bring an understanding of both the history of literature and the history of warfare to the study of the epic.
The Choice Of Odysseus
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Author : Sarah Van der Laan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-22
The Choice Of Odysseus written by Sarah Van der Laan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics for their age. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the Odyssey by Petrarch, Poliziano, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Monteverdi, and Milton to recover a powerful Renaissance tradition of Odyssean epic.
Singing To The Lyre In Renaissance Italy
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Author : Blake Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-21
Singing To The Lyre In Renaissance Italy written by Blake Wilson 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 2019-11-21 with History categories.
The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.
The Limits Of Identity Early Modern Venice Dalmatia And The Representation Of Difference
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Author : Karen-edis Barzman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-04-18
The Limits Of Identity Early Modern Venice Dalmatia And The Representation Of Difference written by Karen-edis Barzman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-18 with History categories.
This book examines the production of collective “Venetian-ness” in early modern representation before turning to the portrayal of populations in Venetian Dalmatia’s borderlands, where those in metropolitan Venice began to perceive difference and imaginings of belonging began to break down.
A Sudden Frenzy
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Author : James K. Coleman
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2022-03-01
A Sudden Frenzy written by James K. Coleman and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Renaissance Italy there existed a rich interplay between two cultural practices frequently regarded as entirely separate and mutually antagonistic: the humanistic study of the ancient world and ancient literature, and the oral and improvisational performance of poetry, which constituted one of the most popular forms of entertainment. A Sudden Frenzy explores the development and impact of these Renaissance practices of improvisation and oral poetry. James K. Coleman shows how the confluence of humanist culture and the art of oral poetry resulted in an extraordinary turn toward improvisation and spontaneity that profoundly influenced poetry, music, and politics. By examining the culture of improvisation, this book reveals the ways in which Renaissance thinkers transcended cultural dichotomies, both in theory and in practice. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including letters, poetry, visual art, and philosophical texts, A Sudden Frenzy reveals the far-reaching and sometimes surprising ways that these phenomena shaped cultural developments in the Italian Renaissance and beyond.
Barbarian Memory The Legacy Of Early Medieval History In Early Modern Literature
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Author : N. Birns
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-10-23
Barbarian Memory The Legacy Of Early Medieval History In Early Modern Literature written by N. Birns and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers.
The Fetters Of Rhyme
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Author : Rebecca M. Rush
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-04
The Fetters Of Rhyme written by Rebecca M. Rush and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sweet Be the Bands: Spenser and the Sonnet of Association -- Licentious Rhymers: Donne and the Late-Elizabethan Couplet Revival -- An Even and Unaltered Gait: Jonson and the Poetics of Character -- Rhyme Oft Times Over-Reaches Reason: Measure and Passion after the Civil War -- Milton and the Known Rules of Ancient Liberty.