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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... narrator other than the author . In earlier peri- ods , the author was both the composer and the subject of the literary work . Dante , for example , both writes the Vita nuova and serves as its protago- nist . The reader is invited to ...
... narrator provides a frame for the fiction that guarantees its otherness.29 AL Gradually , as the reading audience was educated to accept the credibil- ity of a designated narrator , the dimension of the framing narrator is dimin- ished ...
... narrator reports that Euphues turned his back upon his old acquain- tances and quit his own country , setting out on life's journey . The disap- proving narrator , though , adapting the epic forecast , warns in advance : " Leaving the ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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