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UNINA9910821688403321 |
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Pivetti Kyle |
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Of memory and literary form : making the early modern English nation / / Kyle Pivetti |
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Newark : , : University of Delaware Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (199 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Memory in literature |
History in literature |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: "a mass of memories assembled" --"Your grace remembereth": memory as political counsel in Gorboduc -- Justified possessions: Spenser's recollections of "Faery lond" -- To conjure a nation: memory tricks and Henry V -- Remembering oblivion: Mlton's ambivalent politics in retrospect -- Coupling past and future: Dryden's rhymes as history -- Afterword. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Across readings of late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century works, Kyle Pivetti argues that the writers of early modern England found in literary forms-including dumb shows, allegory, and rhyme-the means to construct national memory. |
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