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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... divine command to produce music , which he equates with philosophy . Philosophy , in fact , " is the noblest and most excel- lent Music . " The Greek word translated here as " music " is povoɩkn — literally , what- ever is produced ...
... divine gift , a sacred power breathed into Adam by God as the culminating act of creation . Derrida is right in pointing out that honoring the spoken language , as humanism does , places humankind in juxtaposition with the logos , the ...
... divine and earthly , " and he proceeds to give examples depending largely upon manipulation of " the divine 3 ” and “ the earthly 4 " ( 8.590-91 ) . Literary composition based upon number symbolism , of course , had been commonplace ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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