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Race And Colonization, Jean Feerick
Race And Colonization, Jean Feerick
English
A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is a groundbreaking guide to the contemporary engagement with critical theory within the larger disciplinary area of Renaissance and Early Modern studies. Comprising commissioned contributions from leading international scholars, it provides an overview of literary theory, beyond Shakespeare, focusing on most major figures, as well as some lesser-known writers of the period.
The Short And Surprisingly Private Life Of King Bolo: Eliot’S Bawdy Poems And Their Audiences, Jayme Stayer
The Short And Surprisingly Private Life Of King Bolo: Eliot’S Bawdy Poems And Their Audiences, Jayme Stayer
2017 Faculty Bibliography
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Poetic Science: Wonder And The Seas Of Cognition In Bacon And Pericles, Jean Feerick
Poetic Science: Wonder And The Seas Of Cognition In Bacon And Pericles, Jean Feerick
2017 Faculty Bibliography
This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated. These specially-commissioned essays from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, …
Irony In The Twilight Zone: How The Series Critiqued Postwar American Culture, Tom Pace
Irony In The Twilight Zone: How The Series Critiqued Postwar American Culture, Tom Pace
2017 Faculty Bibliography
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Shakespeare And Classical Cosmology, Jean Feerick
Shakespeare And Classical Cosmology, Jean Feerick
2017 Faculty Bibliography
In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; they also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is connected with whatever qualities still make Shakespeare, himself, a classic (arguably the classic) of modern world literature and drama. The first sense of the classic which the volume addresses is the classical culture of Latin and Greek reading, translation, and imitation. …