Resistant structures : particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts / / Richard Strier

• Autore: Strier Richard
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1995]; ©1995
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/003
• Soggetto topico: English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc - Early modern, 1500-1700; English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Literature and history - History - 16th century - England; Literature and history - History - 17th century - England; Literature and history - England - History - 16th century; Literature and history - England - History - 17th century; Particularity (Aesthetics); Particularité (Esthétique); Radicalism in literature; Renaissance - Angleterre; Renaissance - England
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ESSAY 1. "Tradition" -- ESSAY 2. ''Self- Consumption" -- ESSAY 3. "Theory" -- ESSAY 4. "New Historicism" -- ESSAY 5. Impossible Worldliness -- ESSAY 6. Impossible Radicalism I -- ESSAY 7. Impossible Radicalism II -- ESSAY 8. Impossible Radicalism and Impossible Value -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the "resistant structures" of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts must--or cannot--say or do. The first part of the book, "Against Schemes," demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Fish among others, how both historicist and purely theoretical approaches can equally produce distortion of particulars. The second part, "Against Received Ideas," shows how a variety of texts (by Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and others) have been seen through the lenses of fixed, mainly conservative ideas in ways that have obscured their actual, surprising, and sometimes surprisingly radical content.
• Titolo autorizzato: Resistant structures
• ISBN: 0-520-91921-1; 0-585-26164-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495968403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Series