The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance: Proportion PoeticalPennsylvania State University Press, 1994 - 214 páginas 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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... culture that recognized the originary authority of Christ as logos.31 In contrast , the future stretching forward to our own day is dominated by a materialist ontology defined by empiri- cism.32 The ultimate constituents of its reality ...
... culture . So logocentrism implies that a culture is language - centered , but only because language expresses ideas . The culture places authority in forms , in the potential for relationships . All things , in fact , are interrelated ...
... culture : reality consists of matter and its effects In an earlier culture , however , the things of this world were viewed as evanescent and conducive to sinful pleasure , deserving of contempt ; and ultimate reality resided with a ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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