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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... perfection , so Alexander's act of covering the scar , an attempt at perfection , attests to his deceptive- ness , a flaw . “ Whereby I gather , " Lyly concludes , “ that in all perfect workes aswell the fault as the face is to be ...
... perfection ; vice , to virtue . Simplicity is to be avoided : “ In the disposition of the minde , either vertue is overshadowed with some vice , or vice overcast with some vertue " ( 184.24–26 ) . Examples flock to mind : “ Alexander ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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