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Renaissance tropologies : the cultural imagination of early modern England
- Title
- Renaissance tropologies : the cultural imagination of early modern England / edited by Jeanne Shami.
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Shami, Jeanne.
- Description
- x, 382 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Twelve essays by Renaissance scholars extend the theoretical analysis and application of four tropes -- theater, moment, journey, and ambassadorship -- in examining works by Shakespeare, Donne, and others as a way of providing access into the thought and worldview of early modern England"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
- Subjects
- Language and culture > England > History > 17th century
- Literature and history > England > History > 17th century
- Literature and history > England > History > 16th century
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Rhetoric, Renaissance > England
- Language and culture > England > History > 16th century
- England > Civilization > 17th century
- England > Civilization > 16th century
- Figures of speech in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-363) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Rex absconditus: justice, presence, and legitimacy in Measure for measure / Gale H. Carrithers Jr. and James D. Hardy Jr. -- 2. Salvific moments in John Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions / Eric C. Brown -- 3. Donne and the state of exception / Greg Kneidel -- 4. Troping religious identity: circumcision and transubstantiation in Donne's sermons / Jeanne Shami -- 5. Vaughan's Life of Paulinus: recharting the royalist journey / Susannah Monta -- 6. Journey and ambassadorship in the marriage literature for Mary Tudor (1496/1533) / A. E. B. Coldiron -- 7. Eucharistic semiotics and the representational formulas of Donne's Ambassadors / Alexandra Mills Block -- 8. Donne and diplomacy / Hugh Adlington -- 9. Dangerous liaisons: "Spider love" in Donne's "Twicknam Garden" / Albert C. Labriola -- 10. Mirror tropes and Renaissance poetry / Ilona Bell -- 11. The ars longa trope in a sublunary world / Kate Narveson -- 12. Habits of thought, structures of feeling / Stephen Pender.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-977
- ISBN
- 0820704091 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780820704098 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008032012
- OCLC
- 228376518
- Title
- Renaissance tropologies : the cultural imagination of early modern England / edited by Jeanne Shami.
- Imprint
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2008.
- Series
- Medieval & Renaissance literary studiesMedieval and Renaissance literary studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-363) and index.
- Added Author
- Shami, Jeanne.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-977