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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819383603321

Autore

Kuin R. J. P.

Titolo

Chamber music : Elizabethan sonnet-sequences and the pleasure of criticism / / Roger Kuin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-282-02562-7

9786612025624

1-4426-7282-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

821.04209

Soggetti

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

Sonnets, English - History and criticism

Livres numeriques.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Englisch

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Prelude -- a new intellectual art -- ; 2. Three easy pieces -- sonnet analysis -- ; 3. Polyphony -- the plural of the text -- ; 4. Tempo/Sequenza -- textual time in Astrophil and Stella -- ; 5. Two-part invention -- love/ruins/SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS -- ; 6. Theme with variations -- skin/deep: beauty -- ; 7. From the New World -- Will Archer's diary -- ; 8. Ein Heldenleben -- courtier, text, and death -- ; 9. Death and the maiden -- architecture -- ; 10. Divertimento -- the text as desiring-machine -- ; 11. Four-part fugue -- indeterminacy and undecideability -- ; 12. Encore -- irregardless -- ; App. Discourse and its Choices.

Sommario/riassunto

Arranged somewhat like a sonnet-sequence, in semi-sequential units, Chamber Music can be seen as following two streams. In the first instance, it presents a fresh and original discussion of the major



Elizabethan sonnet-sequences: Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion, and Shakespeare's Sonnets and Lover's Complaint. The sonnet-sequences are read in tandem with works of modern criticism, including those of Roland Barthes, Michel Riffaterre, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida, and Umberto Eco. The book is also an experiment in modern (as opposed to postmodern) criticism in which the content of the argument modifies the presentation.