The return of theory in early modern English studies
Subtitle: tarrying with the subjunctive
By: [edited by] Paul Cefalu and Bryan Reynolds
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780230235496
Subjects: Historical linguistics; English literature; Subjunctive; English language; History and criticism
Description: "This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early modern English literary-cultural studies. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive science, political theology, and rematerialism and performance, the essays incorporate recent theoretical inquiries into new readings of early modern texts"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Tarrying with the Subjunctive, an Introduction; P.Cefalu_& B.Reynolds; title: PART I: NEW FORMALISMS AND COGNITIVISM; title: A Paltry 'Hoop of Gold': Semantics and Systematicity in Early Modern Studies; F.E.Hart; title: If: Lear's Feather and the Staging of Science; A.Cook; title: Ghosting the Subjunctive: Perceptual Technics in Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year and Transversal (New) Media; J.Boyle; title: What was Pastoral (Again)? More Versions; J.Yates; title: PART I: POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE RELIGIOUS TURN; title: Introduction to a Totem Meal: Hans Kelsen, Carl Schmitt and Political Theology; J.Reinhard Lupton; title: The Marlovian Sublime: Imagination and the Problem of Political Theology; G.Hammill; title: Humanism and the Resistance to Theology; W.West; title: 'Grace to Boot': St. Paul, Messianic Time, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale; K.Jackson; title: 'Love's Best Habit': Eros, Agape and the Psychotheology of Shakespeare's Sonnets; G.Kuchar; title: PART III: REMATERIALISMS; title: Against Materialism in Literary Theory; D.Hawkes; title: Performativity of the Court: Stuart Masque as Postdramatic Theatre; J.Limon; title: 'Shakespeare, Idealism, and Universals: The Significance of Recent work on the Mind'; G.Egan; title: Theater and the Scriptural Economy in Doctor Faustus; I.Munro; title: Index; title: _.