03555nam 2200673 450 991078747120332120200520144314.00-8131-8512-20-8131-5858-3(CKB)3710000000334203(EBL)1915377(SSID)ssj0001401433(PQKBManifestationID)12596366(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001401433(PQKBWorkID)11351602(PQKB)10432587(OCoLC)606984896(MdBmJHUP)muse43993(Au-PeEL)EBL1915377(CaPaEBR)ebr11009809(CaONFJC)MIL690943(OCoLC)900344776(MiAaPQ)EBC1915377(EXLCZ)99371000000033420320150204h19981998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAt zero point discourse, culture, and satire in Restoration England /Rose A. ZimbardoLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1998.©19981 online resource (216 p.)Includes index.1-322-59661-1 0-8131-2039-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-189) and index.Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""From Words to Experimental Philosophy"": Language and Logic at Restoration Zero Point; 2. The Semiotics of Restoration Deconstructive Satire; 3. No ""I"" and No ""Eye""; I. ""Author,"" ""Speaker,"" ""Character"" in Restoration Deconstructive Satire; II. Not Him: Oldham's ""Aude aliquid. Ode""; III. Not Them: Wycherley's The Plain Dealer; IV. No-One, No-Place, No-Thing: Swift's Tale of a Tub; 4. Genders, Sexualities, and Discourse at Restoration Zero Point5. The Discursively Central ""I"" and the Telescope of DiscourseI. ""The Proper Study of Mankind is M(E)""; II. Ordered and Ordering: The NewTheory of Satire; III. Satiric Discourse and the Sacred Nation; IV. The ""Other"" End of the Telescope; Conclusion; Notes; Index At Zero Point presents an entirely new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse, and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the eighteenth century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the seventeenth century. Rose Zimbardo's hypothesis is based on Hans Blumenberg's concept of ""zero point"" -- the moment when an epistemology collapses under the weight of questions it has itself raised and simultaneously a new epistemology begins to construct itself. Zimbardo demonstrates that the Restoration marked both the collapse of the ReSatire, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismSemiotics and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryLanguage and cultureEnglandHistory17th centuryGreat BritainHistoryRestoration, 1660-1688Satire, EnglishHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Semiotics and literatureHistoryLanguage and cultureHistory827/.409Zimbardo Rose A.193416MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787471203321At zero point3715718UNINA