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Renaissance Literature and its Formal Engagements

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Mark David Rasmussen
      Pages 1-14

  3. Toward a Historical Formalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Between Form and Culture

      • Stephen Cohen
      Pages 17-41

    3. Shakespeare and the Composite Text

      • Douglas Bruster
      Pages 43-66

    4. The Politics of Aesthetics

      • Heather Dubrow
      Pages 67-88

    5. Marston’s Gorge and the Question of Formalism

      • Joseph Loewenstein
      Pages 89-112

  4. Renewing the Literary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Learning from the New Criticism

      • Paul Alpers
      Pages 115-138

    3. Undelivered Meanings

      • Mark Womack
      Pages 139-158

    4. The Poetics of Speech Tags

      • William Flesch
      Pages 159-184

    5. Flirting with Eternity

      • Elizabeth Harris Sagaser
      Pages 185-206

    6. Afterword

      • Richard Strier
      Pages 207-215

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 217-225
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About this book

What might a self-conscious turn to formal analysis look like in Renaissance literary studies today, after theory and the new historicism? The essays collected here address this question from a variety of critical perspectives, as part of a renewed willingness within literary and cultural studies to engage questions of form. Essays by Paul Alpers, Douglas Bruster, Stephen Cohen, Heather Dubrow, William Flesch, Joseph Loewenstein, Elizabeth Harris Sagaser, and Mark Womack, together with an introduction of Mark David Rasmussen and an afterword by Richard Strier.

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These essays brilliantly display the pleasures offormalism and constitute a rigorous and thrilling demonstration of its indispensability. - Stanley Fish, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago.

About the authors

PAUL ALPERS Class of 1942 Professor of English Emeritus, University of California DOUGLAS BRUSTER Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin STEPHEN COHEN Assistant Professor of English, University of South Alabama HEATHER DUBROW Tighe-Evans Professor and John Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison WILLIAM FLESCH Lecturer in English, Brandeis University JOSEPH LOEWENSTEIN Lecturer, Washington University ELIZABETH HARRIS SAGASER Assistant Professor in Literature, Colby College MARK WOMACK Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas, San Antonio

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Renaissance Literature and its Formal Engagements

  • Editors: Mark David Rasmussen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07177-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29359-8Published: 03 November 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29360-4Published: 03 November 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-07177-4Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 225

  • Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

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