Prose Works: The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [1590 quarto
Author : Philip Sidney
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Philip Sidney
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : J. Davis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230339700
Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methods entailed in the idea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events. Davis analyzes Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella to demonstrate how design elements stage the scene of reading these works.
Author : Sir Philip Sidney
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Philip Sidney
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Page : 596 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 1963
Category : English literature
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Author : Philip Sidney
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1475 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141958782
Basilus, a foolish old duke, consults an oracle as he imperiously wishes to know the future, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies about his family and kingdom he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of wandering princes fall in love with the princesses and adopt disguises to gain access to them, all manner of complications, both comic and serious, ensue. Part-pastoral romance, part-heroic epic, Sidney's long narrative work was hugely popular for centuries after its first publication in 1593, inspiring two sequels and countless imitations, and contributing greatly to the development of the novel.
Author : Jonathan Sawday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192660519
Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally. The book argues that print culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries helped to foster the modern idea of the 'gap' (where words, texts, images, and ideas are constructed as missing, lost, withheld, fragmented, or perhaps never devised in the first place). It re-imagines how early modern people reacted not just to printed books and documents of many different kinds, but also how the very idea of emptiness or absence began to be fashioned in a way which still surrounds us. Jonathan Sawday leads the reader through the entire landscape of early modern print culture, discussing topics such as: space and silence; the exploration of the vacuum; the ways in which race and racial identity in early modern England were constructed by the language and technology of print; blackness and whiteness, together with lightness, darkness, and sightlessness; cartography and emptiness; the effect of typography on reading practices; the social spaces of the page; gendered surfaces; hierarchies of information; books of memory; pages constructed as waste or vacant; the genesis of blank forms and early modern bureaucracy; the political and devotional spaces of printed books; the impact of censorship; and the problem posed by texts which lack endings or conclusions. The book itself ends by dwelling on blank or empty pages as a sign of human mortality. Sawday pays close attention to the writings of many of the familiar figures in English Renaissance literary culture - Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Milton, for example - as well as introducing readers to a host of lesser-known figures. The book also discusses the work of numerous women writers from the period, including Aphra Behn, Ann Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, Lady Jane Gray, Lucy Hutchinson, Æmelia Lanyer, Isabella Whitney, and Lady Mary Wroth.
Author : Samuel Lee Wolff
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Literary Criticism
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Looks at five chief writers of Elizabethan fiction, Lyly, Sidney, Greene, Nash, and Lodge to disengage the characteristics of Greek Romance and trace them into English fiction.
Author : Victor Skretkowicz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526174987
Modern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia in its complete ‘old’ version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version of his pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary text of the sixteenth century. Preserving the basic plot, New Arcadia adds further narrative strands and introduces ambitious revisions, demonstrating Sidney’s brilliance as a prose writer. This edition of the New Arcadia is the first in nearly four decades, preserving the text of Victor Skretkowicz’ celebrated 1987 edition, whilst making the text accessible through modern spelling and supplementing it with a substantially expanded scholarly commentary, an updated glossary, and additional long notes on the book’s history and Sidney’s use of rhetorical devices, as well as his contributions to the English language.
Author : Heidi Brayman Hackel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780521842518
Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular 'ideal' reader of literacy theory and the elite male reader of literacy history.
Author : Marcus Selden Goldman
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Literary Criticism
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