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

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 227 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Poetics -- Congresses.
Poetics.
Formalism (Literary analysis) -- Congresses.
Formalism (Literary analysis)
Chronological Term 1500 - 1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Burton, Ben, 1981- editor.
Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth, 1982- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Work of form. Poetics and materaility in early modern culture 9780198702818 (OCoLC)869726231
ISBN 9780191007361 electronic book
0191007366 electronic book
1322008353 electronic book
9781322008356 electronic book
9780191795282
0191795283
9780198702818 print
0198702817 print