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1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
The new historicism ; no. 34
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New historicism ; 34.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Against schemes: "Tradition" ; "Self consumption" ; "Theory" ; "New historicism" -- pt. 2. Against received ideas: Impossible worldliness : "devout humanism" ; Appendix : Impossible transcendence ; Impossible radicalism I : Donne and freedom of conscience ; Impossible radicalism II : Shakespeare and disobedience ; Impossible radicalism and impossible value : Nahum Tate's King Lear. |
| Summary |
Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the "resistant structures" of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts must - or cannot - say or do. The first part of the book, "Against Schemes," demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Fish, among others, how both historicist and purely theoretical approaches can equally produce distortion of particulars. The second part, "Against Received Ideas," shows how a variety of texts (by Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and others) have been seen through the lenses of fixed, mainly conservative ideas in ways that have obscured their actual, surprising, and sometimes surprisingly radical content. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Particularity (Aesthetics)
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Particularity (Aesthetics) |
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Radicalism in literature.
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Radicalism in literature. |
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Renaissance -- England.
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Renaissance. |
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England. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Strier, Richard. Resistant structures. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995 0520209052 |
| ISBN |
9780520919211 (electronic book) |
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0520919211 (electronic book) |
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0585261644 (electronic book) |
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9780585261645 (electronic book) |
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9780520089150 (alkaline paper) |
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0520089154 (alkaline paper) |
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0520209052 |
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0520089154 (alkaline paper) |
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