The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance: Proportion PoeticalPennsylvania State University Press, 1994 - 214 páginas During the sixteenth century in England the logocentrism of the Middle Ages was confronted by a materialism that heralded the modern world. With remarkable tenacity in music, poetry, and painting, the orthodox aesthetic persisted as formal features which served as nonverbal signs and provided a subtext of form. In opposition, however, a radical aesthetic emerged to accommodate the new attention to physical nature. The growing force of materialism occasioned a fundamental rethinking of what an artifact might represent and how that representation might be achieved. This book explores the ontological and epistemological issues that poststructuralist thought raises about that shift in our cultural history. In doing so, it charts a course for Renaissance studies, now in disarray, that avoids the old positivism while not succumbing to the new nihilism. |
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... Derrida's Of Grammatology , which first demonstrates that Saussure subscribed , know- ingly or not , to the positivist metaphysics of a transcendental signified . Derrida deftly exposes Saussure's phonocentric , and therefore logocen ...
... Derrida proceeds to obliterate it . For signification to derive from the emptiness that is différance , even the possibility of substance must be denied . But then , as Derrida states succinctly elsewhere , " The absence of the ...
... Derrida says , how can it be autonomous and free to play ? 31 Despite his disclaimer that this " is not a metaphysical formula substi- tuted for a scientific concept of writing , " Derrida too suppresses and con- ceals in order to give ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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