1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455830903321

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

Electronic books.

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Prelude -- 2. Three easy pieces -- 3. Polyphony -- 4. Tempo/Sequenza -- 5. Two-part invention -- 6. Theme with variations -- 7. From the New World -- 8. Bin Heldenleben -- 9. Death and the maiden -- 10. Divertimento -- 11. Four-part fugue -- 12. Encore -- Appendix: Discourse and its choices -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Roger Kuin's Chamber Music is a playfully written, imaginative, and ultimately demanding book, with a critical approach characterized by an unusual and indiosynchratic post-modern critical style that will challenge the reader's perceptions of what a book of criticism should and can do.Analysing the sonnet sequences of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare both from an interpretive angle and from the perspective of a post-modern re-evaluation of the Renaissance sonnets, Roger Kuin's discussion is influenced by many modern literary critics, including Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco. Kuin focuses on the problems inherent in the form of the sonnet sequence, emphasizing the various forms of indeterminacy central to their meaning. His sense



of the intertextual relationship among the major English sequences is subtle, and in places, strikingly original, in combination with a highly sophisticated understanding of theory. Chamber Music is a book that will infuriate many, but ultimately reward those who flow with its idiosyncratic style towards Roger Kuin's admirable and expert conclusions.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996385248503316

Titolo

Paradise lost, and paradise regain'd; [[electronic resource]] : by the wonderful works of God. Shewing, how his heavenly majesty was graciously pleased to create heaven and earth: .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Printed and sold by John White; where chapmen and others may be furnished with small histories, sermons, &c., [1720?]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts)

Soggetti

Paradise

Ballads, English - 18th century

Broadsides18th century.England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Date of publication suggested by the British Library.

Verse: "All Christian people, pray attend,".

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018