Forgotten Cites/Sights: Interpretation and the Power of Classical Citation in Renaissance English Tragedy - Couverture rigide

Richmond-Garza, Elizabeth M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820422843 ISBN 13 : 9780820422848

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1995

Synopsis

This study argues for the importance of classical citations, ranging from direct quotations to invocations of theories of interpretation, for Renaissance English tragedy. After an account of tragic spectacle and the role of the imagination in the works of Aristotle and Seneca, the study presents close readings of the political, philosophical, and theatrical implications of the reappropriation of such material for several Renaissance English plays that are particularly concerned with visual epistemology, including the neo-Latin academic tragedy Perfidus Hetruscus, Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II, and William Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Informed by a theory of citations developed from Jacques Derrida, the study explores how each play, in politically volatile and topical contexts, reveals the power of visual images to coerce.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author: Elizabeth Richmond-Garza is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She has published articles on literary theory and comparative Renaissance drama. Dr. Richmond-Garza has been a Fulbright Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford and a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities while at Columbia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820422843
• ISBN 13: 9780820422848
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible