Refiguring Mimesis: Representation in Early Modern Literature - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1902806352 ISBN 13 : 9781902806358

Editeur : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2005

Synopsis

This volume of essays looks at Renaissance texts through the lens of modern theories of mimesis, and also investigates traces of Early Modern equivalents within those same works. With the assimilation of critical theory into literary studies during the late 1960s and the 1970s, many scholars challenged the idea that mimesis was an unproblematic 'representation of reality'. Instead, they found a much more complex mimetic art in operation on the early modern stage.

While the work of these earlier scholars is seminal, this volume argues that it is time to re-figure the question of mimesis. Contributors examine a wide variety of Shakespearian and non-Shakespearian texts to come to an increased historical understanding of the way mimesis operated 400 years ago, but, more importantly, how they can be seen to be operating differently today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr Jonathan Holmes is currently lecturer in Drama and English at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published articles in journals including Shakespeare Survey and New Theatre Quarterly and is the author of the forthcoming Merely Players: actors' accounts of playing Shakespeare.

Dr Adrian Streete is a lecturer in English at Queen's University, Belfast. He has published work on Marlowe, Shakespeare, Calvin and early modern sign theory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Hertfordshire Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1902806352
• ISBN 13: 9781902806358
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Holmes Jonathan, Streete Adrian
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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