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Autore: | Pivetti Kyle |
Titolo: | Of memory and literary form : making the early modern English nation / / Kyle Pivetti |
Pubblicazione: | Newark : , : University of Delaware Press, , [2015] |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (199 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/35842 |
Soggetto topico: | Memory in literature |
History in literature | |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: "a mass of memories assembled" --"Your grace remembereth": memory as political counsel in Gorboduc -- Justified possessions: Spenser's recollections of "Faery lond" -- To conjure a nation: memory tricks and Henry V -- Remembering oblivion: Mlton's ambivalent politics in retrospect -- Coupling past and future: Dryden's rhymes as history -- Afterword. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Across readings of late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century works, Kyle Pivetti argues that the writers of early modern England found in literary forms-including dumb shows, allegory, and rhyme-the means to construct national memory. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Of memory and literary form |
ISBN: | 1-61149-559-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797666703321 |
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