Desire in the Renaissance - Couverture souple

 
9780691001005: Desire in the Renaissance
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691001006 ISBN 13 : 9780691001005
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties over changes in identity emerged in the period's unconscious-or, as Freud would have it, in its literature. Hence, much of Renaissance literature represents themes that have been prominent in the discourse of psychoanalysis: mistaken identity, incest, voyeurism, mourning, and the uncanny. The essays in this volume range from Spenser and Milton to Machiavelli and Ariosto, and focus on the fluidity of gender, the economics of sexual and sibling rivalry, the power of the visual, and the cultural echoes of the uncanny. The discussion of each topic highlights language as the medium of desire, transgression, or oppression. The section "Faking It: Sex, Class, and Gender Mobility" contains essays by Marjorie Garber (Middleton), Natasha Korda (Castiglione), and Valeria Finucci (Ariosto). The contributors to "Ogling: The Circulation of Power" include Harry Berger (Spenser), Lynn Enterline (Petrarch), and Regina Schwartz (Milton). "Loving and Loathing: The Economics of Subjection" includes Juliana Schiesari (Machia-velli) and William Kerrigan (Shakespeare). "Dreaming On: Uncanny Encounters" contains essays by Elizabeth J. Bellamy (Tasso) and David Lee Miller (Jonson).

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À propos de l?auteur

Valeria Finucci is Professor of Romance Studies and Regina Schwartz is Professor of English, both at Duke University.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691001006
ISBN 13 
9780691001005
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
284
Éditeur
Finucci Valeria
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0691034036 ISBN 13 :  9780691034034
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1994
Couverture rigide