The indistinct human in Renaissance literature
By: edited by Jean E. Feerick and Vin Nardizzi
Series: Early modern cultural studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780230340473
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance; Renaissance; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; English literature; Human body in literature; History and criticism; HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century
Description: "This volume argues for the necessaity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. Building on the increased attention paid in recent criticism to both plant and animal life in the Renaissance, as well as the instability of categories such as "human" and "animal," the essays in this collection argue for recognition of the persistently indistinct nature of humans, who cannot be finally divided ontologically or epistemologically from other forms of matter"--