The forms of renaissance thought: new essays in literature and culture

This book addresses works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the world of their origins and to a modern culture that turns to the early moderns for methodological provocation and renewal. It charts the most important developments in the field since the turn towards cultural and ideological features of the Renaissance imagination. ÍNDICE: Notes on Contributors - Introduction: 'The Form of Things Unknown': Renaissance Studies in a New Millennium - PART ONE: RECEPTION, RENOVATION, RENAISSANCE - Praxiteles' Aphrodite and the Love of Art; L.Barkan - English Literature in its Golden Age; S.Keilen - Translating for Queen Anne: John Florio's Decameron; M.Wyatt - The First Reader of Shake-speares Sonnets; M.de Grazia - PART TWO: DESIRE AND THE BODY - The Play of Wanton Parts; J.Goldberg - Shakespeare's Narcissus, Sonnet's Echo; B.Cormack - Coriolanus: The Rhythms and Remains of Excess; P.Holland - The Joys of Martha Joyless: Queer Pedagogy and the(Early Modern) Production of Sexual Knowledge; V.Traub - PART THREE: MATERIALCULTURES - Bearded Ladies in Shakespeare; A.R.Braunmuller - Shakespeare in Leather; A.Bosman - Digging the Dust: Renaissance Archivology; W.Sherman - Of Busks and Bodies; A.R.Jones & P.Stallybrass - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-00898-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 31/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés