Style in the Renaissance

Language and Ideology in Early Modern England

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av Patricia Canning, Dr Patricia Canning, Dan McIntyre

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Within the historical literary genre, stylistics is widely applicable but as yet under deployed. This book acts as a showcase for the range of analysis possible. Although the analytic focus within the genre has traditionally been on literary criticism, stylistics has much to offer. Bringing together text and context, Patricia Canning synthesizes stylistic models with literary theory and critical theory. The historical and contextual focus throughout the book is on religious, political and ideological issues that animated and defined Reformation England. Each chapter interrogates the dichotomous concept of 'word' and 'image' by considering the ways in which writers of this period deal with these contentious subjects in their dramatic and poetic works. 'Representation' is proposed not just as a matter of semiotics but of ideology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-07-26
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt505 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAdvances in Stylistics
Antal sidor224
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441185525

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1. Introduction: 'In the beginning was the Word'; 2. Early Modern Understanding of the Monarch as a Double Body; 3. Constructing Plausible Stories: ideology, conceptual integration theory and the politics of representation; 4. Macbeth, Murder, and the Linguistics of Agency: "A deed without a name"; 5. Metonymy in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy and Webster's The White Devil: 'Bit Part' Actors; 6. Ekphrasis and The Word as Image in Early Modern Poetry: "Iconoclash". 7. Conclusion: the 'value' of the word; Bibliography; Index.

Patricia Canning's adventurous interdisciplinary study brings together in new and exciting ways the two fields of linguistics and literary criticism in her examination of selected texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The range and detail of her analysis, evident especially in her microscopic examination of linguistic forms, cultural assumptions, and historical contexts in plays by Shakespeare and Middleton, and in the poetry of George Crashaw, is impressive. Here is a rare combination of strenuous scholarly rigour, and uncompromising analysis, replete with a full and clear awareness of what interdisciplinarity involves. A welcome new voice offering unique insights into texts that we thought we knew.