Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical ReaderThe last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period. Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practised, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. Through a rich array of arguments by the world's leading experts, the Renaissance emerges wonderfully invigorated, while the suggestive shorter extracts, topical questions and engaged editorial introductions give students the wherewithal and encouragement to do some reconceiving themselves. |
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... cultural value 3 The politics of appropriation 4 International appropriation 5 The impact of new media and the end of the 'Shakesperean' Suggested further reading 5 Identities CLARE McMANUS 211 1 Language, the self and. 190 202 204 204 ...
... cultural value 3 The politics of appropriation 4 International appropriation 5 The impact of new media and the end of the 'Shakesperean' Suggested further reading 5 Identities CLARE McMANUS 211 1 Language, the self and. 190 202 204 204 ...
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... cultural continuum. This unprecedented commitment to contextualization points beyond the notion of the autonomous work of art and that of the unchanging 'human condition'. It gestures instead towards a recognition of communal concerns ...
... cultural continuum. This unprecedented commitment to contextualization points beyond the notion of the autonomous work of art and that of the unchanging 'human condition'. It gestures instead towards a recognition of communal concerns ...
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... cultural and collaborative theories of artistic production have relegated the author to a position of relative inconsequence. The printed text is strictly the work not of the author but of the publisher to whom it legally belongs; and ...
... cultural and collaborative theories of artistic production have relegated the author to a position of relative inconsequence. The printed text is strictly the work not of the author but of the publisher to whom it legally belongs; and ...
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... cultural materialism and the new historicism', in Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield (eds.), Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985), p. 13. Jean E. Howard, 'The new ...
... cultural materialism and the new historicism', in Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield (eds.), Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985), p. 13. Jean E. Howard, 'The new ...
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... cultural authority, is typically appropriated in the present moment in order to be subtly subverted or turned into profit, there are other Renaissance figures as various as John Dee, the Elizabethan magus, and Moll Cutpurse, the cross ...
... cultural authority, is typically appropriated in the present moment in order to be subtly subverted or turned into profit, there are other Renaissance figures as various as John Dee, the Elizabethan magus, and Moll Cutpurse, the cross ...
Contents
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3 Histories | 85 |
4 Appropriation | 145 |
5 Identities | 211 |
6 Materiality | 278 |
7 Values | 353 |
Acknowledgements of Sources | 423 |
Index | 429 |
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