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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... past , its abominations as well as its successes , we run the danger of repeating its mistakes . The most naive of political positions is to relegate the past to the unknowable , and therefore to the disregardable . Revising the ...
... past and future . The momentary position of the arrow becomes no more than the dimensionless point where past is demarcated from future . Each point in the arrow's flight , then , actually indicates a rupture , a moment of discon ...
... past that stretches backward into the Middle Ages as well as a future that extends forward to our own day . 30 联圜 At the risk of being simplistic , I shall now characterize that past and that future . The past stretching backward into ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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