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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... mind . Producer of the first signifier , it is not just a simple signifier among others . It signifies " mental experiences " which themselves reflect or mir- ror things by natural resemblance . Between being and mind , things and ...
... mind of the artificer . Vitruvius states pointedly , “ They are born in the cogitatio and inven- tio of the architect . " So Vitruvius respects the seminal importance of the human mind , and he recognizes the intercourse through ratio ...
... mind succeeds in introducing a principle of order and regularity into certain areas of the mass of signs . ( 131 ) Apparently , it is “ the mind ” that applies the restrictions to prevent arbi- trariness from turning into chaos . The ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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