Renaissance tropologies
Subtitle: the cultural imagination of early modern England
By: edited by Jeanne Shami.
Contributors: Shami, Jeanne.
Series: Medieval and Renaissance literary studies
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780820704098
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Figures of speech in literature; Rhetoric, Renaissance -- England; Language and culture -- England -- History -- 16th century; Language and culture -- England -- History -- 17th century; Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century; Literature and history -- England -- History -- 17th century; England -- Civilization -- 16th century; England -- Civilization -- 17th century
Description: "Twelve essays by Renaissance scholars extend the theoretical analysis and application of four tropes -- theater, moment, journey, and ambassadorship -- in examining works by Shakespeare, Donne, and others as a way of providing access into the thought and worldview of early modern England"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Rex absconditus: justice, presence, and legitimacy in Measure for measure / Gale H. Carrithers Jr. and James D. Hardy Jr.; title: 2. Salvific moments in John Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions / Eric C. Brown; title: 3. Donne and the state of exception / Greg Kneidel; title: 4. Troping religious identity: circumcision and transubstantiation in Donne's sermons / Jeanne Shami; title: 5. Vaughan's Life of Paulinus: recharting the royalist journey / Susannah Monta; title: 6. Journey and ambassadorship in the marriage literature for Mary Tudor (1496/1533) / A. E. B. Coldiron; title: 7. Eucharistic semiotics and the representational formulas of Donne's Ambassadors / Alexandra Mills Block; title: 8. Donne and diplomacy / Hugh Adlington; title: 9. Dangerous liaisons: "Spider love" in Donne's "Twicknam Garden" / Albert C. Labriola; title: 10. Mirror tropes and Renaissance poetry / Ilona Bell; title: 11. The ars longa trope in a sublunary world / Kate Narveson; title: 12. Habits of thought, structures of feeling / Stephen Pender.