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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806138003321

Titolo

Go figure [[electronic resource] ] : energies, forms, and institutions in the early modern world / / edited by Judith H. Anderson and Joan Pong Linton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8232-4122-X

0-8232-3351-0

Edizione

[[1st ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersonJudith H

LintonJoan Pong

Disciplina

820.9/34

Soggetti

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

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Semantics

Symbolism in literature

Semiotics in literature

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

Spenser's giant and the new science / Mary Thomas Crane -- The sacramental neuter and the missing body in Robert Southwell's poetics / Lowell Gallagher -- Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet /  Heather Dubrow -- The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle's Parthenissa / Amelia Zurcher -- Caterpillage : Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting / Harry Berger, Jr. -- Figuring belief : George Herbert's devotional creatures / David Glimp -- Entertaining Friends : Falstaff's Parasitology / Donald Hedrick -- Skin Merchants : Jack Cade's Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II / Julian Yates.

Sommario/riassunto

This title addresses theories of the figure and practices of figuration ranging from classical rhetoric and biblical exegesis to semiotics, psychoanalysis, and socio-politics.