Renaissance culture in context : theory and practice / / edited by Jean R. Brink and William F. Gentrup

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910796543003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-351-90445-0; 1-351-90446-9; 1-315-24457-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 940.21
• Soggetti: Renaissance; European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism; Scottish literature; Scotland Social life and customs 16th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 1993 by Scolar Press and Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter Introduction -- chapter British Literature in Context -- chapter Geography, Religion and History in Context -- chapter Imitation and Italy in Context.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Scholarly traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have led us to assume that national traditions were defining in a way that they may not have been during the Renaissance, when Latin remained an international language. This collection interrogates the historical importance of national traditions, many of which depend upon geographical boundaries that took their shape only after the emergence of the nation state in the modern period. In a seminal essay on Scottish literature, R.D.S. Jack delineates the problems of defining a national literature. Zirka Zaremba Filipczak traces connections between Italy and The Netherlands while Jozef Ijsewijn examines the use of Italian models by neo-Latin authors and Francis M. Higman offers a preliminary study of European translations of Reformation authors. Paul W. Knoll reminds us that the division between western and eastern Europe dates from this century by demonstrating the impact of Italian humanism on Polish universities. Divisions among disciplines are also challenged by the ; contributors to this volume. Arthur F. Kinney brilliantly shows that literature is enriched by an understanding of historical and political texts. Jacqueline L. Glomski questions the division between historiography and art while Howard Mayer Brown indicates the importance of literary concepts such as rhetoric and genre for the Italian madrigal, and Norman K. Farmer, Jr, of theological texts for interpreting poetry. Minna Skafte Jensen traces the impact of a major reformer on some Danish poets. Conceptual forms of internationality are explored in essays by Bart Westerweel on time, Bruce P. Lenman on geography, and Karen Skovgaard-Petersena and Karin Tilmans on historiography. Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a compelling and persuasive justification for an interdisciplinary and international aproach to the study of Renaissance culture."--Provided by publisher.

Christine Brooke-Rose and Post-War Literature / / by Joseph Darlington

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910482980703321
• Autore: Darlington Joseph
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021
• ISBN: 9783030759063; 3030759067
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2021.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 pages)
• Disciplina: 823.03; 823.914
• Soggetti: Literature, Modern - 20th century; Poststructuralism; Fiction; Language and languages - Philosophy; Postmodernism; World history; Twentieth-Century Literature; Fiction Literature; Philosophy of Language; Post-Modern Philosophy; World History, Global and Transnational History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. The 1950s: Postgraduate Linguistics and Social Satire -- 3. The 1960s: Experimentalism in the Space Age -- 4. The 1970s: Chaos at Vincennes and Poststructuralism -- 5. The 1980s: Postmodernism and Digital Writing -- 6. The 1990s: Fire, Fury and Maximalism -- 7. The 2000s: Fragments; Truth, Death and Memory -- 8. Conclusion: Christine Brooke-Rose and the Physicality of Language.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Through a synthesis of biographical research and textual analysis Joseph Darlington's monograph grounds Brooke-Rose's fascinating novels in a new way, showing how they were responses to the circumstances of the author's eventful life and concerns at the time of writing. In so doing, it links the array ofdisciplinary fields Brooke-Rose was significant in and allows the reader to see her contribution as a sum of its many parts." -Glyn White, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, University of Salford, UK This book utilizes archive research, interviews and historical analysis to present a comprehensive overview of the works of Christine Brooke-Rose. A writer well-known for her idiosyncratic and experimental approaches to the novel form; this work traces her development from her early years as a social satirist, through her space-aged experimentalism in the 1960s, to her later poststructuralism and interest in digital computing and genetics. The book gives an overview of her writing and intellectual career with new archival research that places Brooke-Rose's work in the context of the historically important events in which she was a participant: Bletchley Park codebreaking in the Second World War, the events in Paris during May 1968, the dawning of the internet and the rise of poststructuralism. Joseph Darlington begins with Brooke-Rose's first novels written in the late 1950s of social satire, studies her experimental phase of writing and finally illuminates her unique approach to autobiography, arguing for reevaluating this interdisciplinary author and her contribution to poststructuralism, life writing and post-war literature. Joseph Darlington is a writer and academic from Manchester, UK. He is programme leader for the animation degree at Futureworks Media School, and is the author of British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and co-editor of the Manchester Review of Books. He was awarded a Harry Ransom Fellowship for his work on Brooke-Rose in 2012, and has published a number of research papers exploring her work.