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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813067703321

Autore

Menon Madhavi

Titolo

Wanton words : rhetoric and sexuality in English Renaissance drama / / Madhavi Menon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-4426-5973-4

1-281-99478-2

9786611994785

1-4426-8322-8

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (466 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RussellNorma (Norma Jean)

Disciplina

822/.3093538

Soggetti

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism

Sex in literature

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Rhetoric

English drama - 17th century - History and criticism

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreplay -- 1 Setting the Stage: Metaphor -- 2 Performance Anxiety: Metonymy, Richard II, The Roaring Girl -- 3 First Night: Metalepsis, Romeo and Juliet, All's Well that Ends Well -- 4 Cast in Order of Appearance: Catachresis, Othello, King John -- 5 Encore! Allegory, Volpone, The Tempest -- After Words: Henry VIII and the Ends of History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y

Sommario/riassunto

"In Wanton Words, Madhavi Menon intimately and expertly couples



classical and Renaissance handbooks of rhetoric with canonical Renaissance plays and demonstrates their shared propensity to speak about sex - often transgressive sex - in the same instance that they speak about the workings of language." "While other studies of rhetoric have confined their analyses to local questions of interpretive interest, Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing so, she suggests that rhetoric allows us to think through the erotics of language in ways that pay most attention to the frisson of English Renaissance drama. Sustained deconstructive parsings of tropes - metaphor, metonymy, allegory, catachresis, and more - enables their wantonness to emerge in subjects usually considered unrelated to rhetoric: race in Othello, colonialism in The Tempest, tragedy in Romeo and Juliet, and cowardice in The Roaring Girl."--Jacket

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484903703321

Autore

Steinvorth Ulrich

Titolo

A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics : Why Analytic Metaphysics is Not Enough / / by Ulrich Steinvorth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030726034

3030726037

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 97 pages)

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

146.4

110

Soggetti

Metaphysics

Ontology

Analysis (Philosophy)

Analytic Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Why Naturalistic Metaphysics Is Needed



-- The Specter of Metaphysics -- Analytic Philosophy's Manifesto -- The Virtues Required of Metaphysics -- Metaphysical Questions and History -- Responses to Modern Science -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Ontology of Escalation -- Self-Regulation in Animals -- Self-Determination -- To Be Is to Be Self-Regulated -- Consciousness and Abilities -- Self-Determination and Dual Process Theory -- How to Find What Suits Me -- The Moral and the Metaphysical -- Teleology -- Being, Value, and the Demiurge -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Practical Conclusions -- Rethinking Liberalism -- Privacy and Education -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this small book, Ulrich Steinvorth describes the reasons why analytic philosophy, which started as an anti-metaphysical project, has become a strong advocate of metaphysics, and why it must become synthetic, normative, and naturalistic. Steinvorth argues that self-regulation is the common property of all being, that we can talk of an increase or escalation of self-regulation in the evolution of being, and that self-regulation becomes self-determination in man. Considering objections to this view related to questions of free will, consciousness, the naturalistic fallacy, and teleology, he draws on cybernetics, dual process theory, physical cosmology, and Leibniz's ("demiurgic") idea of measuring the goodness of a world by the number of possibilities opened up by the world. To test his approach and show its political relevance, he applies it to political liberalism. Ulrich Steinvorth is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and livesin the United States. He has published numerous books and articles on political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics in German, English, and French, and has taught philosophy at universities in Germany, France, Turkey, Japan, China, and the USA.