Reading Renaissance Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780415406352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str.

Marshall Grossman

Opis

Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours. Exploring the nature and mechanics of cultural agency, the book explains with greater clarity just what is at stake when canon-formation, aesthetic evaluation and curricular reform are questioned and revised. Taking seriously the question of what to read requires us to consider exactly what it is that we do when we read and when we write about our reading. Reading Renaissance Ethics asks what sorts of events took place when Renaissance texts were first read and how this differs from the way we read and teach them now.

Recenzje

'... essential reading... The book draws together a fascinating set of essays written by an extremely influential group of scholars, and focuses attention on some powerful problems in contemporary literary and cultural studies.  The fact that it offers some very different takes on those problems only increases its interest.' - Benedict S. Robinson, State University of New York

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  Contributors.  List of Illustrations.  Part 1: 1. Introduction: Reading Renaissance Ethics  Part 2: The Ethics of Renaissance Forms  2. Gender, Justice and the Gods in The Faerie Queene, Book 5  3. The Ethics of Posing: Visual Epideixis in Some 17^th Century Dutch Group Portraits  4. Textual Ethics: Reading Transference and Translation: Milton and Tragedy  5. Aesthetics as Critique in Samson Agonistes  Part 3: Historicizing Renaissance Ethics  6. The Ethics of Renaissance Bible Translation  7. Eating Montaigne  8. Marvell’s 'Scaevola Scoto-Brittannus' and the Ethics of Political Violence  Part 4: Philosophy and Renaissance Ethics  9. The Ethics of Inspiration  10.  Shakespeare Against Morality  11. The Skeptical Ethics of John Donne: The Case of Ignatius his Conclave  12. Winning the Initiative  Part 5: Assessments  13. Ethics or Politics? An Exchange Passing through the Areopagitica  14. Reading Reading Renaissance Ethics: 'with modesty enough'

O autorze

Marshall Grossman