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Autore |
Zimbardo Rose A. |
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At zero point : discourse, culture, and satire in Restoration England / / Rose A. Zimbardo |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1998 |
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©1998 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-8512-2 |
0-8131-5858-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Satire, English - History and criticism |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Semiotics and literature - England - History - 17th century |
Language and culture - England - History - 17th century |
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Great Britain History Restoration, 1660-1688 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-189) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""From Words to Experimental Philosophy"": Language and Logic at Restoration Zero Point; 2. The Semiotics of Restoration Deconstructive Satire; 3. No ""I"" and No ""Eye""; I. ""Author,"" ""Speaker,"" ""Character"" in Restoration Deconstructive Satire; II. Not Him: Oldham's ""Aude aliquid. Ode""; III. Not Them: Wycherley's The Plain Dealer; IV. No-One, No-Place, No-Thing: Swift's Tale of a Tub; 4. Genders, Sexualities, and Discourse at Restoration Zero Point |
5. The Discursively Central ""I"" and the Telescope of DiscourseI. ""The Proper Study of Mankind is M(E)""; II. Ordered and Ordering: The NewTheory of Satire; III. Satiric Discourse and the Sacred Nation; IV. The ""Other"" End of the Telescope; Conclusion; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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At Zero Point presents an entirely new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse, and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the eighteenth century |
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(when it occurred in France) but at the end of the seventeenth century. Rose Zimbardo's hypothesis is based on Hans Blumenberg's concept of ""zero point"" -- the moment when an epistemology collapses under the weight of questions it has itself raised and simultaneously a new epistemology begins to construct itself. Zimbardo demonstrates that the Restoration marked both the collapse of the Re |
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