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Renaissance Posthumanism / / Scott Maisano, Joseph Campana



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Titolo: Renaissance Posthumanism / / Scott Maisano, Joseph Campana Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina: 190
Soggetto topico: Humanism
Renaissance
Humanities
Post-postmodernism
Soggetto non controllato: Animal Studies
Ecology
Human
Milton
Posthumanism
Rabelais
Renaissance Humanism
Shakespeare
Titian
Persona (resp. second.): CampanaJoseph
MaisanoScott
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Renaissance Posthumanism -- ONE. What Posthumanism Isn’t: On Humanism and Human Exceptionalism in the Renaissance -- Two. Titian’s Flaying of Marsyas: Thresholds of the Human and the Limits of Painting -- Three. Rabelais’s Silenic Regime: The Fundamentals of Gargantua -- Four. A Natural History of Ravishment -- Five. Farmyard Choreographies in Early Modern England -- Six. Oves et Singulatim: A Multispecies Impression -- Seven. Wooden Actors on the En glishe nais sance Stage -- Eight. Beyond Human: Visualizing the Sexuality of Abraham Bosse’s Mandrake -- Nine. Shakespeare’s Mineral Emotions -- Epilogue: H Is for Humanism -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Connecting Renaissance humanism to the variety of “critical posthumanisms” in twenty-first-century literary and cultural theory, Renaissance Posthumanism reconsiders traditional languages of humanism and the human, not by nostalgically enshrining or triumphantly superseding humanisms past but rather by revisiting and interrogating them. What if today’s “critical posthumanisms,” even as they distance themselves from the iconic representations of the Renaissance, are in fact moving ever closer to ideas in works from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century? What if “the human” is at once embedded and embodied in, evolving with, and de-centered amid a weird tangle of animals, environments, and vital materiality? Seeking those patterns of thought and practice, contributors to this collection focus on moments wherein Renaissance humanism looks retrospectively like an uncanny “contemporary”—and ally—of twenty-first-century critical posthumanism.
Titolo autorizzato: Renaissance Posthumanism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-6956-6
0-8232-6970-1
0-8232-6959-0
0-8232-6958-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823001903321
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