1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780048903321

Titolo

Desire in the Renaissance [[electronic resource] ] : psychoanalysis and literature / / edited by Valeria Finucci and Regina Schwartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1994

ISBN

1-4008-1587-8

9786612752087

1-4008-2150-9

1-282-75208-1

1-4008-1159-7

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FinucciValeria

SchwartzRegina M

Disciplina

820.9/353

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Psychoanalysis and literature

Desire in literature

Renaissance - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Worlds Within and Without / Schwartz, Regina / Finucci, Valeria -- FAKING IT: SEX, CLASS, AND GENDER MOBILITY -- The Insincerity of Women / Garber, Marjorie -- Mistaken Identities: Castiglio(ne)'s Practical Joke / Korda, Natasha -- The Female Masquerade: Ariosto and the Game of Desire / Finucci, Valeria -- OGLING: THE CIRCULATION OF POWER -- Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party in Spenser's Gardens of Adonis / Berger, Harry -- Embodied Voices: Petrarch Reading (Himself Reading) Ovid / Enterline, Lynn -- Through the Optic Glass: Voyeurism and Paradise Lost / Schwartz, Regina -- LOVING AND LOATHING: THE ECONOMICS OF SUBJECTION -- Libidinal Economies: Machiavelli and Fortune's Rape / Schiesari, Juliana -- Female Friends and Fraternal Enemies in As You Like It / Kerrigan, William -- DREAMING ON: UNCANNY ENCOUNTERS -- From Virgil to Tasso: The Epic Topos as an Uncanny Return / Bellamy, Elizabeth J. -- Writing the Specular Son: Jonson, Freud, Lacan,



and the (K)not of Masculinity / Miller, David Lee -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties over changes in identity emerged in the period's unconscious--or, as Freud would have it, in its literature. Hence, much of Renaissance literature represents themes that have been prominent in the discourse of psychoanalysis: mistaken identity, incest, voyeurism, mourning, and the uncanny. The essays in this volume range from Spenser and Milton to Machiavelli and Ariosto, and focus on the fluidity of gender, the economics of sexual and sibling rivalry, the power of the visual, and the cultural echoes of the uncanny. The discussion of each topic highlights language as the medium of desire, transgression, or oppression. The section "Faking It: Sex, Class, and Gender Mobility" contains essays by Marjorie Garber (Middleton), Natasha Korda (Castiglione), and Valeria Finucci (Ariosto). The contributors to "Ogling: The Circulation of Power" include Harry Berger (Spenser), Lynn Enterline (Petrarch), and Regina Schwartz (Milton). "Loving and Loathing: The Economics of Subjection" includes Juliana Schiesari (Machia-velli) and William Kerrigan (Shakespeare). "Dreaming On: Uncanny Encounters" contains essays by Elizabeth J. Bellamy (Tasso) and David Lee Miller (Jonson).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791945603321

Autore

Bassett Caroline

Titolo

The arc and the machine : narrative and new media / / Caroline Bassett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-84779-649-4

1-78170-090-7

1-84779-161-1

Edizione

[Online-ausg.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

EBL-Schweitzer

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Digital media

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719073427; 9780719073427; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Narrative machines; 2 'Beautiful patterns of bits': cybernetics, interfaces, new media; 3 Those with whom the archive dwells; 4 Annihilating all that's made?Legends of virtual community; 5 'Just because' stories:on Elephant; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed.The book offers a careful explo