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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Renaissance literature"”.
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Jane Shore: A Biography of A Theme in Renaissance Literature
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Medievalism in the French Renaissance: Literature, History, and Nation in Claude Fauchet's Veilles ou Observations (1555)
This thesis explores the place of medieval French literature in the formation of national identity in sixteenth-century France. It focuses on an unpublished and little-studied manuscript miscellany, the Veilles ou Observations de plusieurs choses dinnes de mémoire en la lecture d’aucuns autheurs …
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"A Shade Too Unreserved": Destabilizing Sexuality and Gender Constructs of the New Negro Identity in Harlem Renaissance Literature
<p>Much of the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement was directly intertwined with the New Negro social movement of the time. Race leaders spoke to and influenced artistic trends, while artists often engaged with the New Negro race issues and social debates through their works. Wallace Thurman, …
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La mandragola
… both a theatre director and a student of Italian Renaissance literature—has proven otherwise. In particular, Sices’s translation of La Mandragola (titled The Mandrake in his edition) plays upon a misguided image of Machiavelli the villain, a stereotype that has plagued Italian Renaissance studies …
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Female cross-dressing and fragile masculinity in Le Roman de Silence and Twelfth Night
… masculinity has been portrayed in Medieval and Renaissance literature by analyzing the impact of female-crossing dressing on male characters in Heldris of Cornwall’s Le Roman de Silence and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In the 13th century French Romance that centers on the debate between …
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La auto-modelación y el sujeto femenino en La Celestina de Fermando de Rojas y en La Farsa de la Costança de Cristóbal de Castillejo
… theory of self-fashioning in English Renaissance literature can also be applied to the analysis of these Medieval and Renaissance works of the Iberian Peninsula. Self-fashioning is a literary technique of constructing a public persona – that is perhaps different to one's true self, or …
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The culture and rhetoric of the answer-poem:1485-1625:with a supplementary 'Select catalogue of answer-poetry in print and manuscript, 1485-1625'
… become a prominent mode of social interaction in Renaissance literature. The answer-poem is symptomatic of a culture fixated with codes and theories of social dialogue. In this climate verse answering was a literary skill cultivated as a means of establishing oneself as a well-rounded gentleman of …
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Jocus : a personification of folly and play and an attribute of carnal love in Renaissance art
… a virtually forgotten and unrecognised figure in Renaissance iconography today; yet this personification has a substantial history in both art and literature. This study recovers the iconographic tradition of Jocus, identifying its classical literary origins, and tracing its survival, development …
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Jean Passerat (1534 - 1602): a critical biography, and study of selected works
… – should be carried out in the field of French Renaissance studies.<br/><br/>From the outset, the aim of my research was to unearth as much new information on Passerat as was possible, in order to build up a thorough and accurate picture of his background, education, and career: thus the sources …
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Your Change Is Still Behind: Futurity in Early Modern Literature
<p>A study of Renaissance literature's engagement with temporality, my project is a critical evaluation of the concept of early modern futurity, of which I propose three categories: "Material futurity"; "Biological futurity"; and "Political futurity." In the moments that I identify in texts …
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Renouncing sex and the self: asceticism in early modern England
… form and content, word and meaning, animates literature, the ascetic negotiation of body and soul directly impacts literary aesthetics. By recovering that impact, along with how ascetic attitudes inform other theological and philosophical discourses, I show the need for a cultural history of …
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Inanimating Matter: The Aesthetics of Putrefaction in Early Modern English Literature, 1580-1660
… decaying organic matter in early modern English literature. The ubiquitous preoccupation with processes of organic dissolution and decay in the poetry, prose, and drama of the years 1580-1660 has often been understood to reflect this period’s pervasive anxieties about mortality and the mutability …
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The unities of time and place in sixteenth-century theater and criticism
… teatro del mundo," was a favorite metaphor of Renaissance writers. It appears in a great number of works of many different kinds, sometimes being extensively developed as a central structural device in the work itself, as in Laurentius Beyerlinck’s encyclopedic <em>Theatrum vitae humanae …
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Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
I have chosen to focus on several poets of the long 1590's, since I would argue that together they represent, for the first time, a confluence of literary love traditions that have previously existed independently across multiple centuries, nations and languages. First, I consider Ovid and the …
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Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603
From 1599 onwards, Shakespeare’s works began to appear in printed anthologies. Over the following years, a number of volumes included passages from his poems and plays, presenting them alongside similar excerpts by his rivals and contemporaries. The practices of reading and commonplacing that lie …
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'Of his breast noble poets shall eat; of his blood shall men be drunk': nationalism, literature, and Arthurian 'things' in medieval and Early Modern Britain
… of medieval and Early Modern Arthurian literature, English and British nationalism, and new materialism – specifically thing theory and object-oriented ontology. Arthur was not a true historical figure, yet throughout much of British history his cultural and propagandist value has been …
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"Ain't You Heard"?: The Jazz Poetry of Langston Hughes
… that can result from the intersection of life, literature, and criticism. At that point, I decided to obtain a degree in English Literature, but I had yet to discover how I would connect my study of literature to my musical background; in fact, I began to think the former would preclude the …
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Material Prayers: The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions
… Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, 1400-1600, it focuses primarily on engagement with these material prayers in domestic spaces. Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing from material culture studies, literary history, social and cultural history, and art …