Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry - Couverture rigide

Cheney, Patrick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1405169540 ISBN 13 : 9781405169547

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Reading Sixteenth–Century Poetry combines close readings ofindividual poems with a critical consideration of the historicalcontext in which they were written. Informative and original, thisbook has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand,enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth–century poetry.

• Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth–century poems,canonical and non–canonical, by men and by women, from print andmanuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres
• Poems read within their historical context, with reference tofive major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, theReformation, the modern nation–state, companionate marriage, andthe scientific revolution
• Offers in–depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, IsabellaWhitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary SidneyHerbert, Donne, and Shakespeare
• Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare smajor poems – Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece,′The Phoenix and Turtle,′ the Sonnets, and A Lover′sComplaint– in the context of his dramatic career
• Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato,Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, PercyBysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and HelenVendler

Revue de presse :

Highly useful in addressing the formal and genericconcerns of sixteenth–century poets, and thus in demonstratingclose reading, Reading Sixteenth–CenturyPoetry fails to address the equally important politicaland theoretical period discourses or the methodologies needed toaddress them. The unbalanced infatuation with authorial vocationand authorial perspectives thus limits the usefulness of the text.Cheney s companion text may thus represent a more widespreadreturn to traditional author–centered interpretive theories anda
turn away from poststructural approaches.   (Journalof the Northern Renaissance, 1 December 2012)

"Cheney′s eye for such intertextual allusion transforms what couldhave been a series of isolated close readings into a delicatelyunified exposition of a century′s worth of literary dialogue."(Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 2011)

"A carefully selected bibliography that focuses on backgroundsources as well as on primary works and significant criticalmaterial is a valuable supplement to the author′s consideration ofthe poetry. Cheney develops his thesis clearly and makes animportant contribution to Renaissance scholarship. Recommended.Upper–division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 October2011)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1405169540
• ISBN 13: 9781405169547
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352