Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108843395
This collection reexamines commemoration and memorialization as generative practices illuminating the hidden life of Renaissance death arts.
Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108910424
Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the collection is arranged into three subsections, 'The Arts of Remembering Death', 'Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead', and 'The Ends of Commemoration', where contributors analyse how memory and mortality intersected in writings, devotional practice, and visual culture. The book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, book history, art history, and the history of mnemonics and thanatology, and will prove an indispensable guide for researchers, instructors, and students alike.
Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199257621
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Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108800394
The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death's intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research.
Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107086817
Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.
Author : Susan Harlan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137580127
This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” – or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle – provides a way of thinking about England’s relationship to its violent cultural inheritance. She demonstrates how writers reconstituted the spoils of antiquity and the Middle Ages in an imagined military struggle between male bodies. An analysis of scenes of arming and disarming across texts by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and tributes to Sir Philip Sidney reveals a pervasive militant nostalgia: a cultural fascination with moribund models and technologies of war. Readers will not only gain a better understanding of humanism but also a new way of thinking about violence and cultural production in Renaissance England.
Author : Garrett A. Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139446347
Engaging debates over the nature of subjectivity in early modern England, this fascinating and original study examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century conceptions of memory and forgetting, and their importance to the drama and culture of the time. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr discusses memory and forgetting as categories in terms of which a variety of behaviours - from seeking salvation to pursuing vengeance to succumbing to desire - are conceptualized. Drawing upon a range of literary and non-literary discourses, represented by treatises on the passions, sermons, anti-theatrical tracts, epic poems and more, Shakespeare, Marlowe and Webster stage 'self-recollection' and, more commonly, 'self-forgetting', the latter providing a powerful model for dramatic subjectivity. Focusing on works such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Dr Faustus and The Duchess of Malfi, Sullivan reveals memory and forgetting to be dynamic cultural forces central to early modern understandings of embodiment, selfhood and social practice.
Author : Mark Kaethler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
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ISBN : 3031550641
Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030884902
This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare’s corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare’s plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide—at once epistemological and phenomenological—between premodernity and the Enlightenment.
Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317168046
Paying special attention to Sidney's Arcadia, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's romances, this study engages in sustained examination of chiasmus in early modern English literature. The author's approach leads to the recovery of hidden designs which are shown to animate important works of literature; along the way Engel offers fresh and more comprehensive interpretations of seemingly shopworn conventions such as memento mori conceits, echo poems, and the staging of deus ex machina. The study, grounded in the philosophy of symbolic forms (following Ernst Cassirer), will be a valuable resource for readers interested in intellectual history and symbol theory, classical mythology and Renaissance iconography. Chiastic Designs affords a glimpse into the transformative power of allegory during the English Renaissance by addressing patterns that were part and parcel of early modern "mnemonic culture."
