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Weaver, William P

 
9780748644650: Untutored Lines: The Making of the English Epyllion
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ISBN 10 : 0748644652 ISBN 13 : 9780748644650
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Synopsis

A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in this fascinating study of Renaissance education and poetry. Rhetoric, moreover, is erotic. Far being merely formal, rhetoric is the key to deciphering the cultural meanings of an enigmatic genre. Weaver attends to one of the epyllion's defining dramas: boys in transition to adulthood. Whereas recent studies of the epyllion have posited sexuality as the primary, even exclusive, means of representing beautiful boys, Weaver discovers that Renaissance male sexuality itself is an effect of a disciplinary drama of pedagogical transition from boyhood to adolescence, grammar to rhetoric. This drama of differentiation, lucidly expounded by Weaver, is at the heart of the erotic epyllia of Shakespeare, Marlowe and their imitators. Key Features *Focuses on six poems written between 1592 and 1594, looking to the most inventive period of the English epyllion *Documents previously unknown sources of Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis *Makes the first cultural critique of the Renaissance progymnasmata, the popular rhetorical exercises *Shows the vital connections between English poetry and continental rhetoric *Productively complements histories of sexuality, queer theory and feminist criticism

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À propos de l'auteur

William P. Weaver is an assistant professor of literature in the Honors College of Baylor University, where he teaches Great Texts. His articles on Renaissance poetry and rhetoric have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in Philology, Spenser Studies, and Rhetorica.

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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0748644652
ISBN 13 
9780748644650
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
232
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