Sophie Chiari

The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Contributors to this volume examine the question of transmission and of the educational procedures in16th- and 17th-century England by emphasizing deviant practices that questioned, reassessed or even challenged pre-established cultural norms and traditions. Chapters analyse how the interrelated processes of initiation, transmission and transgressi

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367880897
• ISBN-10: 036788089X
• Artikelnr.: 58439446

Autorenporträt

Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern Literature at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand (CERHAC, French National Centre for Scientific Research).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Theories and Philosophies of Transmission: Ship of Fools: Foucault
and the Shakespeareans. Shakespeare's paradoxes of excellence. Shakespeare
and the atomist heritage. Part 2 Initiation Practices: Hilliard and
Sidney's 'rule of the eye'. Mercurial apprentices in city comedies. The
courtesan and her mother in Middleton's A Mad World, my Masters. Rumour and
second-hand knowledge in Much Ado About Nothing. Part 3 Political and
Spiritual Issues: Marlowe's political balancing act: religion and
translatio imperii in Doctor Faustus (B). Magic, manipulation and misrule
in Doctor Faustus and Measure for Measure. Shakespeare and the violation of
sanctuary. Limited being: revising Hamlet in The Revenger's Tragedy. Part 4
Transgressions of Gender and Genre: Cephalus and Procris: the transmission
of a myth in early modern England. Out-Oviding Ovid in Shakespeare's Venus
and Adonis. From intertextual to gender transgression in Middleton's The
Witch. 'Transversing' and 'transprosing': the case of George Villiers's The
Rehearsal (1671). Romeo and Juliet in Brazil: Grupo Galpao's Romeu e
Julieta. Afterword: 'Love's transgression'.