Wendy Beth Hyman

Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

Wendy Beth Hyman examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation in the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions focused on the lovers' anticipated decline, investigated the nature of matter, time, and poetic representation, and became a vehicle for articulating religious doubt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780198837510
• ISBN-10: 0198837518
• Artikelnr.: 55397636

Autorenporträt

Wendy Beth Hyman is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College. She received her MA and PhD from Harvard University, and her BA at Smith College. Professor Hyman is the editor of The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature, and, with Hillary Eklund, co-editor of Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare. She has published on early modern mechanical birds, Spenser's Faerie Queene, the influence of literary insects on early microscopy, physics and metaphysics in early modern lyric, jacquemarts and Jack Falstaff, Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller , metaphoricity and science, and the pedagogy of book history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Limits of the Possible
1: Poetry and Matter in the English Renaissance
2: The Erotics of Doubt
3: Telling Time on the Body
4: Seizing the 'Point Imaginary'
5: Saying No and Saying Yes
Afterword: Learning to Imagine What We Know
Bibliography
Index