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A Companion to Renaissance Poetry


A Companion to Renaissance Poetry


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Catherine Bates

139,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 24.01.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9781118584903
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 680

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<p><b>The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market</b></p> <p>Covering the period 1520–1680, <i>A Companion to Renaissance Poetry </i>offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animating the discipline.</p> <p><i>A Companion to Renaissance Poetry </i>analyzes the historical, cultural, political, and religious background of the time, addressing issues such as education, translation, the Reformation, theorizations of poetry, and more. The book immerses readers in non-dramatic poetry from Wyatt to Milton, focusing on the key poetic genres—epic, lyric, complaint, elegy, epistle, pastoral, satire, and religious poetry. It also offers an inclusive account of the poetic production of the period by canonical and less canonical writers, female and male. Finally, it offers examples of current developments in the interpretation of Renaissance poetry, including economic, ecological, scientific, materialist, and formalist approaches.</p> <p>• Covers a wide selection of authors and texts</p> <p>• Features contributions from notable authors, scholars, and critics across the globe</p> <p>• Offers a substantial section on recent and developing approaches to reading Renaissance poetry</p> <p><i>A Companion to Renaissance Poetry </i>is an ideal resource for all students and scholars of the literature and culture of the Renaissance period.</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Preface xvii</p> <p>Acknowledgments xx</p> <p><b>Part I Contexts 1</b></p> <p>Transitions and Translations 3</p> <p>1 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry 3<br /><i>Seth Lerer</i></p> <p>2 Translation and Translations 16<br /><i>A. E. B. Coldiron</i></p> <p>3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty 31<br /><i>Lynn Enterline</i></p> <p>Religions and Reformations 50</p> <p>4 Poetry and Sacrament in the English Renaissance 50<br /><i>Gary Kuchar</i></p> <p>5 “A sweetness ready penn’d”?: English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era 63<br /><i>Susannah Brietz Monta</i></p> <p>Authorships and Authorities 78</p> <p>6 Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission 78<br /><i>Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti</i></p> <p>7 Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print 103<br /><i>Jonathan Gibson</i></p> <p>8 Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution 115<br /><i>Stephen B. Dobranski</i></p> <p>9 Female Authorship 128<br /><i>Wendy Wall</i></p> <p>10 Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the “Religious Poet” 141<br /><i>Jonathan Crewe</i></p> <p>Defenses and Definitions 154</p> <p>11 Theories and Philosophies of Poetry 154<br /><i>Robert Matz</i></p> <p>12 Tudor Verse Form: Rudeness, Artifice, and Display 166<br /><i>Joseph Loewenstein</i></p> <p>13 Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form 183<br /><i>Patrick Cheney</i></p> <p><b>Part II Forms and Genres 199</b></p> <p>Epic and Epyllion 201</p> <p>14 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 201<br /><i>Gordon Teskey</i></p> <p>15 Paradise Lost: Experimental and Unorthodox Sacred Epic 214<br /><i>David Loewenstein</i></p> <p>16 Forms of Creativity in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder 227<br /><i>Shannon Miller</i></p> <p>17 The Epyllion 239<br /><i>Jim Ellis</i></p> <p>Lyric 250</p> <p>18 Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses: The Sonnet Tradition from Wyatt to Milton 250<br /><i>Gordon Braden</i></p> <p>19 Wyatt and Surrey: Songs and Sonnets 262<br /><i>Chris Stamatakis</i></p> <p>20 Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser 276<br /><i>Catherine Bates</i></p> <p>21 “I am lunaticke”: Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, and the Evolution of the Lyric 289<br /><i>Danijela Kambaskovic?]Schwartz</i></p> <p>22 Art and History Then: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146 303<br /><i>Christopher Warley</i></p> <p>23 Metapoetry and the Subject of the Poem in Donne and Marvell 314<br /><i>Barbara Correll</i></p> <p>24 Jonson and the Cavalier Poets 325<br /><i>Syrithe Pugh</i></p> <p>Complaint and Elegy 339</p> <p>25 Complaint 339<br /><i>Rosalind Smith, Michelle O’Callaghan, and Sarah C. E. Ross</i></p> <p>26 Funeral Elegy 353<br /><i>Andrea Brady</i></p> <p>Epistolary and Dialogic Forms 365</p> <p>27 Letters of Address, Letters of Exchange 365<br /><i>M. L. Stapleton</i></p> <p>28 Answer Poetry and Other Verse “Conversations” 376<br /><i>Cathy Shrank</i></p> <p>Satire, Pastoral, and Popular Poetry 389</p> <p>29 Verse Satire 389<br /><i>Michelle O’Callaghan</i></p> <p>30 Proper Work, Willing Waste: Pastoral and the English Poet 401<br /><i>Catherine Nicholson</i></p> <p>31 Digging into “Veritable Dunghills”: Re?]appreciating</p> <p>Renaissance Broadside Ballads 414<br /><i>Patricia Fumerton</i></p> <p>Religious Poetry 432</p> <p>32 Female Piety and Religious Poetry 432<br /><i>Femke Molekamp</i></p> <p>33 The Psalms 446<br /><i>Hannibal Hamlin</i></p> <p>34 Donne and Herbert 459<br /><i>Helen Wilcox</i></p> <p><b>Part III Positions and Debates 471</b></p> <p>35 Archipelagic Identities 473<br /><i>Willy Maley</i></p> <p>36 Chorography, Map?]Mindedness, Poetics of Place 485<br /><i>Andrew Hadfield</i></p> <p>37 Masculinity 498<br /><i>Joseph Campana</i></p> <p>38 Queer Studies 510<br /><i>Stephen Guy?]Bray</i></p> <p>39 Sensation, Passion, and Emotion 519<br /><i>Douglas Trevor</i></p> <p>40 The Body in Renaissance Poetry 531<br /><i>Michael Schoenfeldt</i></p> <p>41 Poetry and the Material Text 545<br /><i>Adam Smyth</i></p> <p>42 Science and Technology 557<br /><i>Jessica Wolfe</i></p> <p>43 Economic Criticism 570<br /><i>William J. Kennedy</i></p> <p>44 New Historicism, New Formalism, and Thy Darling in an Urn 583<br /><i>Richard Strier</i></p> <p>45 Allegory 595<br /><i>Kenneth Borris</i></p> <p>46 The Sublime 611<br /><i>Patrick Cheney</i></p> <p>Index 628</p>
<p> <strong>Catherine Bates</strong> is Research Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of: <em>On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's</em> Defence of Poesy; <em>Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser</em> (for which she won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2015); <em>Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric; Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud;</em> and <em>The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature.</em>
<p><b>The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market</b></p> <p>Covering the period 1520–1680, <i>A Companion to Renaissance Poetry</i> offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animating the discipline.</p> <p><i>A Companion to Renaissance Poetry</i> analyzes the historical, cultural, political, and religious background of the time, addressing issues such as education, translation, the Reformation, theorizations of poetry, and more. The book immerses readers in non-dramatic poetry from Wyatt to Milton, focusing on the key poetic genres–epic, lyric, complaint, elegy, epistle, pastoral, satire, and religious poetry. It also offers an inclusive account of the poetic production of the period by canonical and less canonical writers, female and male. Finally, it offers examples of current developments in the interpretation of Renaissance poetry, including economic, ecological, scientific, materialist, and formalist approaches.</p> <ul> <li>Covers a wide selection of authors and texts</li> <li>Features contributions from notable authors, scholars, and critics across the globe</li> <li>Offers a substantial section on recent and developing approaches to reading Renaissance poetry</li> </ul> <p><i>A Companion to Renaissance Poetry</i> is an ideal resource for all students and scholars of the literature and culture of the Renaissance period.</p>

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