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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... Formal features of an artistic work express the immaterial , hidden , and otherwise inexpressible ideas that in the platonist ontology underlie and sustain the transient world we inhabit . This orthodox aesthetic persisted into the ...
... formal properties approximates music ; while by virtue of its depictive capacity , poetry assim- ilates to painting ... formal proper- ties are the primary textual data , and another where primacy is assigned to the language that ...
... formal properties . Architecture also exhib- ited formal properties expressed through the measurements of its build- ings , so it also assimilated to music . Indeed , during the late Middle Ages architecture had been music's closest ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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