Download or read book The Ludic Self in Seventeenth Century English Literature written by Anna K. Nardo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts of the period enact this mediation.
Download or read book The Ludic Self in Seventeenth Century English Literature written by Anna K. Nardo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1991-09-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts of the period enact this mediation.
Download or read book The Ambiguity of Play written by Brian Sutton-Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct "rhetorics"--The ancient discourses of fate, power, communal identity, and frivolity and the modern discourses of progress, the imaginary, and the self. In a sweeping analysis that moves from the question of play in child development to the implications of play for the Western work ethic, he explores the values, historical sources, and interests that have dictated the terms and forms of play put forth in each discourse's "objective" theory
Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne Volume 7 Part 1 written by John Donne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for previous volumes: "This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." -- Chronique This is the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the scribal collection -- which contains unique authorial versions of several of the sonnets -- inscribed by Donne's friend Rowland Woodward in the Westmoreland manuscript.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to John Donne written by Achsah Guibbory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to John Donne introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing readings of his texts and also fully situating them in the historical and cultural context of early modern England, these essays offer the most up-to-date scholarship and introduce students to the current thinking and debates about Donne, while providing tools for students to read Donne with greater understanding and enjoyment. Special features include a chronology; a short biography; essays on political and religious contexts; an essay on the experience of reading his lyrics; a meditation on Donne by the contemporary novelist A. S. Byatt; and an extensive bibliography of editions and criticism.
Download or read book The World in Play written by Matthew Kaiser and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future. A world in play means two things: a world in flux and a world trapped, like Alice in Wonderland, in a ludic microcosm of itself. The book explores the extent to which play (competition, leisure, mischief, luck, festivity, imagination) pervades nineteenth-century literature and culture and forms the foundations of the modern self. Play made the Victorian world cohere and betrayed the illusoriness of that coherence. This is the paradox of modernity. Kaiser gives an account of how certain Victorian misfits—working-class melodramatists of the 1830s, the reclusive Emily Brontë, free spirits Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, mischievous Oscar Wilde—struggled to make sense of this new world. In so doing, they discovered the art of modern life.
Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne Volume 4 2 written by John Donne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 25 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, Volume 4.2 details the genealogical history of each poem, accompanied by a thorough prose discussion, as well as a General Textual Introduction of the Songs and Sonets collectively. The volume also presents a comprehensive digest of the commentary on these Songs and Sonets from Donne's time through 1999. Arranged chronologically within sections, the material for each poem is organized under various headings that complement the volume's companions, Volume 4.1 and Volume 4.3.
Download or read book Ideas written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Self in Early Modern Literature written by Terry Grey Sherwood and published by Duquesne. This book was released on 2007 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Responding to the debate stimulated by cultural materialist and new historicist claims that the early modern self was fragmented by forces in Elizabethan England, Sherwood argues that the self was capable of unified subjectivity, demonstrating that the intersection of Protestant vocation and Christian civic humanism was a stabilizing factor in the early modern construction of self"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book John Donne written by John Richard Roberts and published by Duquesne. This book was released on 2004 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included here are nearly 1,600 entries of descriptive annotations wherein Roberts quotes extensively from each item in order to convey a sense of its approach and the level of its critical sophistication and complexity. Entries are organized chronologically, and within each year, alphabetically by author.
Download or read book Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth century Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles which focus on a broad spectrum of significant figures in fiction, philosophy, and criticism such as Austen, Carlyle, Dickens,Thackeray, the Brontes, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, and Henry James.
Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing the Flesh written by Jeffrey P. Powers-Beck and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue demonstrates that George Herbert's lyric acheivement was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a family's literary conversation and manuscript exchange. The Herberts, in the words of a contemporary, write the flesh, as they wrote to and about one other. Derived from an exhaustive reading of Herbert family manuscripts, this study interprets a series of texts that have never been studied together before. In addition to George Herbert's works, these texts include: Lord Herbert's philosophical treatises and poems; Magdalen Herbert Danvers's letters and Kitchin Booke; Thomas Herbert's The Storme . . . from Plymouth; Sir Henry Herbert's newsletters and literary works; and the papers of Sir John Danvers, the Ferrars, and other members of the Virginia Company. A keen synthesis of social history and literary criticism, Writing the Flesh presents both a historical examination of the structure of an early modern family and a new domestic understanding of George Herbert's poetry.
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