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Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities – Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare: Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

Autor Danila Sokolov
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 feb 2017
In a major contribution to the burgeoning area of study that crosses between early modern texts and premodern cultures, Danila Sokolov argues for the necessity of reading the work of English Petrarchan writers in light of earlier medieval forms of poetic subjectivity. By doing just that, this book directly challenges one of the most enduring myths of contemporary criticism and shows that the many innovations associated with the poetry of Petarchism derive from medieval subjectivities that continue to inform modern ideas of selfhood and modernity more generally. While the lines of division between "the Renaissance sonnet" and earlier poetry are some of the most entrenched in early modern scholarship, even the origin point of that discourse -- responses to Petrarch's Canzoniere -- requires that we recognise that studies of medieval writing provide a necessary grounding. As Sokolov demonstrates through a series of careful readings of works by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Daniel, Drayton, and Shakespeare, this poetry is genealogically linked to earlier forms of discourse. In each of the instances discussed, the canonical Renaissance texts display their dependence on medieval technologies of selfhood, including those found in Langland's Piers Plowman, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, Lydgate's Temple of Glas, and Henryson's The Testament of Creseyde, among others. Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities is not an attempt to identify acts of direct borrowing and imitation; instead, Sokolov focuses on continuities within structures of the poetic imagination: patterns of figuration, forms of textual selfhood, and discursive assemblages. Thus, the book opens up a field of productive engagement between the two periods without the constraints of material history, and also introduces scholars of Renaissance literature to medieval texts that often escape their attention but which have the potential to illuminate important aspects of early modern poetry, culture, and the history of subjectivity. Sokolov draws as well on a great deal of relevant historical evidence, focusing on Protestant attitudes to labor, theories of melancholy, Elizabethan poetics of marriage, legal history, and the impact of syphilis. With this multifaceted, ground-breaking approach to what is first and foremost a study of poetry and forms of the poetic imagination, Sokolov demonstrates that Renaissance selfhood is medieval in its essence, its constitution can be traced historically and textually, and the Renaissance's most well-known poetry still deserves fresh attention.
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ISBN-13: 9780820704975
ISBN-10: 0820704970
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 186 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Penn State University
Seria Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies


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