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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... represented regularly as a binary system of alternating states , such as the opposites of day and night comprising the diurnal unit of time . But more is implied here . While day and night taken together define a unit of time , they ...
... representing the year . Immediately outside this square , sym- metrically arranged , are four panes ( 7 , 11 , 15 , 19 ) representing the sea- sons ; and each season , in turn , is surrounded in its semicircle by three panes representing ...
... representing character , a correlation between visible features and essen- tial personality . And just as clearly , he prepared such an introduction to his fictional tale of Euphues because he believed in the parallelism between ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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