Author: Jonathan Crewe
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: wyatt, shakespeare, new, historicism, reconstruction, poetic, authorship, anterior, forms, trials
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1990-01-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0520066936
ISBN-13: 9780520066939

For more than a decade, the English Renaissance has been the scene of trial for the critical methodologies of deconstruction, feminism, new historicism, psychoanalytic poststructuralism, and cultural studies. Jonathan Crewe argues that the commitment in the prevailing criticism to innovation, transgression, and radical change has increasingly obscured some powerfully conservative elements both in Renaissance culture and in these critical discourses themselves. In a reading of the poets Wyatt, Surrey, and Gascoigne, and of the biographies of Thomas More and Cardinal Wolsey, Crewe focuses on the

Author: Leah S. Marcus
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: historicism, studies, cultural, poetics, new, discontents, shakespeare, local, reading, puzzling
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1990-08-09
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0520071913
ISBN-13: 9780520071919

Author: Daniel Boyarin
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: historicism, studies, cultural, poetics, new, culture, israel, reading, sex, talmudic, carnal
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1995-08-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520203364
ISBN-13: 9780520203365

Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism--that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church--Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity. The body--specifically, the sexualized body--could not be renounced, for the Rabbis believed as a religious principle in the generation of offspring and hence in intercourse sanctioned by marriage.This belief bound men and women together and made impossible the various modes of gender

Author: Gillian Brown
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: historicism, studies, cultural, poetics, new, america, individualism, imagining, nineteenth, century, domestic
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1992-09-30
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520080998
ISBN-13: 9780520080997

Gillian Brown’s book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the critical perspective from which nineteenth-century American literature and culture have been viewed.In this study of the domestic constitution of individualism, Brown traces how the values of interiority, order, privacy, and enclosure associate

Author: Richard Strier
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: historicism, studies, cultural, poetics, new, texts, structures, particularity, radicalism, renaissance, resistant
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-03-31
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520209052
ISBN-13: 9780520209053

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 mustor cannotsay or do. The first part of the book, "Against Schemes," demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Steph

Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: historicism, new, studies, cultural, poetics, england, renaissance, negotiations, circulation, social, energy, shakespearean
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 1989-04-14
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520061608
ISBN-13: 9780520061606

Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare’s achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.

Author: David Harris Sack
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: historicism, studies, cultural, poetics, new, economy, gate, bristol, atlantic, widening
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1993-12-30
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0520084497
ISBN-13: 9780520084490

The recipient of the 1992 John Ben Snow Foundation Prize, this study examines the dynamics by which early modern Bristol moved from a medieval commercial economy to an early capitalist system.