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Barbarous antiquity : reorienting the past in the poetry of early modern England / / Miriam Jacobson



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Autore: Jacobson Miriam Emma Visualizza persona
Titolo: Barbarous antiquity : reorienting the past in the poetry of early modern England / / Miriam Jacobson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014
©2014
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina: 821/.309357
Soggetto topico: English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Diction
English literature - Classical influences
English literature - Foreign influences
Commerce
Commercial products in literature
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Commerce Middle East
Middle East Commerce Great Britain
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction. Trafficking with Antiquity: Trade, Poetry, and Remediation -- Chapter 1. Strange Language: Imported Words in Jonson’s Ars Poetica -- Chapter 2. Shaping Subtlety: Sugar in The Arte of English Poesie -- Chapter 3. Publishing Pain: Zero in The Rape of Lucrece -- Chapter 4. Breeding Fame: Horses and Bulbs in Venus and Adonis -- Chapter 5. On Chapman Crossing Marlowe’s Hellespont: Pearls, Dyes, and Ink in Hero and Leander -- Epilogue. The Peregrinations of Barbarous Antiquity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater investigated representations of religious and ethnic identity in its portrayals of Turks and Muslims, poetry, Miriam Jacobson argues, explored East-West exchanges primarily through language and the material text. Just as English markets were flooded with exotic goods, so was the English language awash in freshly imported words describing items such as sugar, jewels, plants, spices, paints, and dyes, as well as technological advancements such as the use of Arabic numerals in arithmetic and the concept of zero. Even as these Eastern words and imports found their way into English poetry, poets wrestled with paying homage to classical authors and styles. In Barbarous Antiquity, Jacobson reveals how poems adapted from Latin or Greek sources and set in the ancient classical world were now reoriented to reflect a contemporary, mercantile Ottoman landscape. As Renaissance English writers including Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and Chapman weighed their reliance on classical poetic models against contemporary cultural exchanges, a new form of poetry developed, positioned at the crossroads of East and West, ancient and modern. Building each chapter around the intersection of an Eastern import and a classical model, Jacobson shows how Renaissance English poetry not only reconstructed the classical past but offered a critique of that very enterprise with a new set of words and metaphors imported from the East.
Titolo autorizzato: Barbarous antiquity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8122-9007-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465758103321
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