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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... Sidney had leapt into this fray and , while respectful of Scaliger , had returned to Aristotle's strict definition of poetry as mimesis . " Poesy , " he explains , " is an art of imitation , for so Aristotle termeth it in the word ...
... Sidney , too , had been diverted by it . Even while declar- ing an allegiance to Aristotle , Sidney contrarily condones rhyming and vers- ing . And as he warms to the task of defending poetry by listing the famous men who have ...
... Sidney , it is a gross oversimplification to read the text as a factual account of Sidney's pursuit of Penelope Devereux . Sidney has created an alter ego , Astrophil , to frame his narrative , setting it apart from actuality in order ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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