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Renaissance Suppliants: Poetry, Antiquity, Reconciliation

Autor Leah Whittington
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 iun 2016
Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance. It argues that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, taking us to the heart of fundamental questions of politics and religion, ethics and identity, sexuality and family. As a perennial mode of asymmetrical communication in moments of helplessness and extreme need, supplication speaks to ways that people live together despite grave inequalities. It is a strategy that societies use to regulate and perpetuate themselves, to negotiate conflict, and to manage situations in which relationships threaten to unravel. All the writers discussed here--Vergil, Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Milton--find supplication indispensable for thinking about problems of antagonism, difference, and hierarchy, bringing the aesthetic resources of supplicatory interactions to bear on their unique literary and cultural circumstances. The opening chapters establish a conceptual framework for thinking about supplication as facilitating transitions between states of feeling and positions of relative status, beginning with Homer and classical literature. Vergil's Aeneid is paradigmatic instance in which literary and social structures of the ancient past are transformed to suit the needs of the present, and supplication becomes a figure for the act of cultural translation. Subsequent chapters take up different aspects of Renaissance supplicatory discourse, showing how postures of humiliation and abjection are appropriated and transformed in erotic poetry, drama, and epic. The book ends with Milton who invests gestures of self-abasement with unexpected dignity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198754442
ISBN-10: 0198754442
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 15 black-and-white halftones
Dimensiuni: 148 x 223 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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A compelling picture of how to reread cultural and literary history.
Traversing the worlds of Homer, Vergil, Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Milton, among others, Renaissance Suppliants is a lucid, capacious study. Throughout, it remains deeply attentive to the particular historical exigencies that gave rise to the continual reinvention of supplicatory rituals within literature from antiquity to the Renaissance.
This is an interesting, thoughtful, and wide-ranging study ... I beseech you to read it.
The book contributes generously to pre-existing scholarship regarding supplication, especially of Renaissance England ... The final product should interest scholars of not only literature but also philosophy, sociology, and political science.
This deft book pursues several distinguishable agenda which might have gotten in one another's way but in Whittington's hands don't.

Notă biografică

Leah Whittington is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University. After receiving her PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, she was a Mellon Fellow at the Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities. Her research and teaching focus on English Renaissance literature and its classical and Continental antecedents. She is also Associate Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library.