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In small proportions : a poetics of the English ayre, 1596-1622

Title
In small proportions : a poetics of the English ayre, 1596-1622 / Daniel Fischlin.
Author
Fischlin, Daniel.
Publication
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1998.

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404 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  • Aesthetic anomaly? Historical oddity? Notable development in Occidental art song? Triumph of poetic and musical proportion? The English ayre, which enjoyed a short vogue from approximately 1596 to 1622, is a distinctive subgeare of the lyric, marking a transition in English lyric history from the staid language of Petrarchism to the lively and varied style of the late Elizabethans, and later to the highly elaborate metrical and philosophical style of the metaphysical poets.
  • Based on Edward Doughtie's seminal critical edition, Lyrics from English Airs, 1596-1622 (Harvard University Press, 1970), and intended as a complement to it, In Small Proportions provides the first extended examination of the ayre's literary devices and attributes.
  • Its goal is to elaborate a poetics of the ayre as a blend of music and text - a means by which scholars, students, performers, and cultural historians may interpret the ayre's lyrics through a heightened understanding of the distinctive literary features that assure the genre a unique place in the cultural achievements of the English Renaissance.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-383) and index.
Contents
1. "The Consent of Speaking Harmony": The Poetics of the English Ayre -- 2. "The Highest Key of Passion": Self, Metaphor, and Inexpressibility in John Dowland's the First Books of Songes or Ayres -- 3. "Tis Like I Cannot Tell What": Desire, Indeterminacy, and Erotic Performance -- 4. "Sighes and Teares Make Life to Last": The Purgation of Death and Grief Through Trope -- 5. Metalepsis and the Rhetoric of Lyric Affect -- 6. "I Know Not What Yet That I Feele is Much": Lyric Negations -- 7. "What Numbers Fitte the Nature of Her Idiome": Music and Metrics -- 8. Postlude: The Performance Context of the English Ayre -- App. Transcriptions in Modern Notation of Facsimiles.
ISBN
0814326935 (alk. paper)
LCCN
97019868
OCLC
  • 36961064
  • ocm36961064
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Columbia University Libraries