Renaissance Papers 2022

Pearce, Jim (EDT); Risvold, Ward J. (EDT); Given, William (EDT); Fox-horton, Julie (CON); Hindrichsen, Lorenz A. (CON)

ISBN 10: 1640141642 / ISBN 13: 9781640141643

Edité par Camden House, 2023

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Renaissance Papers 2022
• Éditeur: Camden House
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1640141642
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781640141643
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The theme of this year's volume is "sacred places, secular spaces." It begins with a "who is it" mystery, examining two portraits by Raphael that embody the sacred and the profane, respectively. The next essay engages both the sacred and pictorial innovationsin Holbein's predella The Dead Christ; while the following one views the sacred through the critical lens of race, arguing that Northern European churchmen normalized views on race by strategically placing racialized artifacts in their churches. The scene then shifts to 16th century Venice, where the Greek community contended with local authorities over the right to establish a sacred site for interring their dead. The next two essays swing the pendulum toward the secular: an essay on ecocriticism suggests that the early modern period expelled the sacred from nature and presents a Rabelaisian antidote, while an essay on Spenser's The Faerie Queene presents it as a blueprint for colonization. The volume concludes with

Contributors: Julie Fox-Horton, Lorenz A. Hindrichsen, Heather Hirschfeld, Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson, Jesse Russell, Victor Velázquez, John N. Wall, Jennifer Wu.
The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward Risvold of Georgia College and State University.

À propos des auteurs

JAMES PEARCE is Director of Graduate Studies in English at North Carolina Central University.

WARD J. RISVOLD teaches writing in the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College and State University.

WILLIAM GIVEN is a professor at the University of California at San Diego.