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1 online resource (744 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Glyn P. Norton -- READING AND INTERPRETATION: AN EMERGING DISCOURSE OF POETICS -- Theories of language / Richard Waswo -- Renaissance exegesis / Michel Jeanneret -- Evangelism and Erasmus / Marjorie O'rourke Boyle -- The assimilation of Aristotle's Poetics in sixteenth-century Italy / Daniel Javitch -- Horace in the sixteenth century: commentators into critics / Ann Moss -- Cicero and Quintilian / John O. Ward -- POETICS -- I Humanist classifications -- Humanist classifications of poetry among the arts and sciences / William J. Kennedy -- Theories of poetry: Latin writers / Ann Moss -- II The rediscovery and transmission of materials -- Literary imitation in the sixteenth century: writers and readers, Latin and French / Ann Moss -- Petrarchan poetics / William J. Kennedy -- Translatio and translation in the Renaissance: from Italy to France / Valerie Worth-Stylianou -- Invention / Ullrich Langer -- III Rhetorical poetics -- Humanist education / Ann Moss -- Second rhetoric and the grands rhétoriqueurs / Robert Griffin -- The rhetoric of presence: art, literature, and illusion / François Rigolot -- The paradoxical sisterhood: 'ut pictura poesis' / Christopher Braider -- Conceptions of style / Debora Shuger -- Sir Philip Sidney's An apology for poetry / Wesley Trimpi -- Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus: the conception of reader response / Nicholas Cronk -- IV Literary forms -- Italian epic theory / Daniel Javitch -- The lyric / Roland Greene -- Renaissance theatre and the theory of tragedy / Timothy J. Reiss -- Elizabethan theatrical genres and literary theory / George K. Hunter -- Defining comedy in the seventeenth century: moral sense and theatrical sensibility / G.J. Mallinson -- Dialogue and discussion in the Renaissance / David Marsh -- The essay as criticism / Floyd Gray -- The genres of epigram and emblem / Daniel Russell -- Humour and satire in the Renaissance / Anne Lake Prescott -- THEORIES OF PROSE FICTION -- Theories of prose fiction in England: 1558-1700 / Paul Salzman -- Theories of prose fiction in sixteenth-century France / Glyn P. Norton -- Seventeenth-century theories of the novel in France: writing and reading the truth / G.J. Mallinson -- Theories of prose fiction and poetics in Italy: novella and romanzo (1525-1596) / Glyn P. Norton and Marga Cottino-Jones -- CONTEXTS OF CRITICISM: METROPOLITAN CULTURE AND SOCIO-LITERARY ENVIRONMENTS -- Criticism and the metropolis: Tudor-Stuart London / Lawrence Manley -- Criticism in the city: Lyons and Paris / Timothy Hampton -- Culture, imperialism, and humanist criticism in the Italian city-states / Diana Robin -- German-speaking centres and institutions / James A. Parente, Jr. -- Courts and patronage / Michael Schoenfeldt -- Rooms of their own: Literary salons in seventeenth-century France / Joan DeJean -- Renaissance printing and the book trade / George Hoffmann -- VOICES OF DISSENT -- The Ciceronian controversy / John Monfasani -- Reorganizing the encyclopaedia: Vives and Ramus on Aristotle and the scholastics / Martin Elsky -- The rise of the vernaculars / Richard Waswo -- Ancients and Moderns: France / Terence Cave -- Women as auctores in early modern Europe / Elizabeth Guild -- STRUCTURES OF THOUGHT -- Renaissance Neoplatonism / Michael J.B. Allen -- Cosmography and poetics / Fernand Hallyn -- Natural philosophy and the 'new science' / Ann Blair -- Stoicism and Epicureanism: philosophical revival and literary repercussions / Jill Kraye -- Calvinism and post-Tridentine developments / Catharine Randall -- Port-Royal and Jansenism / Richard Parish -- NEOCLASSICAL ISSUES: BEAUTY, JUDGEMENT, PERSUASION, POLEMICS -- Combative criticism: Jonson, Milton, and classical literary criticism in England / Colin Burrow -- The rhetorical ideal in France / Hugh M. Davidson -- Cartesian aesthetics / Timothy J. Reiss -- Principles of judgement: probability, decorum, taste, and the je ne sais quoi / Michael Moriarty -- Longinus and the Sublime / John Logan -- A SURVEY OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS -- Seventeenth-century English literary criticism: classical values, English texts and contexts / Joshua Scodel -- French criticism in the seventeenth century / Michael Moriarty -- Literary-critical developments in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Italy / Marga Cottino-Jones -- Cultural commentary in seventeenth-century Spain: literary theory and textual practice / Marina Brownlee -- The German-speaking countries / Peter Skrine -- The Low Countries / Theo Hermans |
| Summary |
"This volume provides the first comprehensive treatment of the issues that helped shape the way writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavor, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. The sixty-one chapters by a team of internationally respected scholars are supported by specialized bibliographies for guidance in further studies of the individual topics." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
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Criticism -- Europe -- History
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Criticism.
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European literature -- Renaissance.
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Norton, Glyn P
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| ISBN |
9781139053631 |
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1139053639 |
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9781139053631 |
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