| Description |
x, 355 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Art, nature, and convention Art, nature, and convention -- Art and nature in antiquity -- Art and convention in antiquity -- The medieval redefinition -- 2. Convention in the sixteenth century The "Duble name" of custom: the Reformation attack on convention -- "Use becomes another nature": custom in sixteenth-century politics and law -- A world on wheels: convention in sixteenth-century moral philosophy -- Neo-stoic and Baconian nature: seventeenth-century prospects -- 3. Convention and the sixteenth-century arts of speech The possibilities of discourse: Renaissance logic, rhetoric, and poetics -- "Convenience to nature" and the "Secretes of privitie": nature and convention in defense of poetry -- The artlessness of art: convention in Renaissance poetics -- "The separation of opinions": the role of convention in criticism and controversy -- 4. Contextualism and the role of convention in historiography Historical rhetoric and historical explanation -- The emergence of historical consciousness -- "A genius of times": the contexts of historical periods -- "A passable contexture": convention and the practice of contextualism -- 5. The triumph of convention "A latitude of sense": testing for truth -- Real and mental theater: the complex of classicism -- "Betwixt two ages cast": Dryden's criticism -- "These broken ends": ancients, moderns, and modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Convention (Philosophy)
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Criticism -- History.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
79027773 |
| ISBN |
0674170156 |
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