Title The work of form : poetics and materiality in early modern culture / edited by Ben Burton and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 227 pages) : illustrations Summary This book explores the resurgent interest in literary form and aesthetics in early modern English studies. Essays by leading international scholars reflect on the legacy of historicist approaches and on calls for a renewal of formalist analysis as both a tool and as a defence of our object of study as literary critics. This collection addresses the possibilities as well as the challenges of combining these critical traditions; it tests and reflects on these through practice. It also establishes new lines of enquiry by expanding definitions of form to include the material as well as theoretical implications of the term and explores the early modern roots of these connections. The period's most famous poets such as Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Jonson appear alongside Anne Southwell, Thomas Campion, and many anonymous poets and songwriters. This book brings together contributors from literary history, historicism, manuscript study, prosodic theory, the history of music, history of the book, as well as print and manuscript culture. It represents avowedly political historical work, alongside aesthetic and theoretical frameworks, work bridging literature and music, and cognitive poetics. In bringing together these diverse commitments, it addresses urgent questions about how we can understand and analyse literary form in a historically-rooted way, and demands rigorous discussion about the status of formal and aesthetic considerations in editing, in literary criticism, and in teaching Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 30, 2019) Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses Poetics -- Congresses Formalism (Literary analysis) -- Congresses POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. English poetry -- Early modern Formalism (Literary analysis) Poetics Genre/Form Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Burton, Ben, 1981- editor. Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth, 1982- editor. ISBN 9780191007361 0191007366 1322008353 9781322008356 9780191795282 0191795283

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