Gale Researcher Guide for: Andrew Marvell: Poet, Polemicist, Politician
Gale Researcher Guide for: Andrew Marvell: Poet, Polemicist, Politician

Author: Brendan Prawdzik

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published:

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 1535850973

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Andrew Marvell: Poet, Polemicist, Politician is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Theatrical Milton
Theatrical Milton

Author: Brendan Prawdzik

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1474421024

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Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre. Political and theological cultures in seventeenth-century England developed a treasury of representational resources in order to stage-to satirize and, above all, to de-legitimate-rhetors of politics, religion, and print. At the core of Milton's works is a contradictory relation to theatre that has neither been explained nor properly explored. This book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama.

To His Coy Mistress
To His Coy Mistress

Author: Andrew Marvell

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781857996692

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An enigmatic men, whose poems balance opposing principles-Royalism and Republicanism, spirituality and sexuality.

The Sublime in Antiquity
The Sublime in Antiquity

Author: James I. Porter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 1107037476

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Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.

From Puritanism to Postmodernism
From Puritanism to Postmodernism

Author: Richard Ruland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1317234146

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Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.

Cosmos and Character in Paradise Lost
Cosmos and Character in Paradise Lost

Author: M. Sarkar

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2012-06-08

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781349435197

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This book offers a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that suggests that a recovery of the vital intellectual ferment of the new science, magic, and alchemy of the seventeenth century reveals new and unexpected aspects of Milton's cosmos and chaos, and the characters of the angels and Adam and Eve. After examining the contextual references to cabalism, hermeticism, and science in the invocations and in the presentation of chaos and Night, the book focuses on the central stage of the epic action, Milton's unique cosmos, at once finite and infinite, with its re-orientation of compass points. While Milton relies on the new astronomy, optics and mechanics in configuring his cosmos, he draws upon alchemy to suggest that the imagined prelapsarian cosmos is the crucible within which vital re-orientations of authority could have taken place.

Critical Crossings
Critical Crossings

Author: Neil Jumonville

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780520068582

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"I did not think it was possible to say something new about the New York intellectuals. I was wrong. Jumonville takes a unique approach: he shows why their ideas mattered--and still do. This book rekindles one's faith in the intellectual enterprise."--Alan Wolfe, author of Whose Keeper? "So much has been written on the New York intellectuals they may someday attain the historiographical status of Perry Miller's Puritans and F. O. Matthiessen's Transcendentalists. Jumonville's excellent book demonstrates why the subject deserves fresh study. . . . Rises above ideological rancor to achieve empathy and thoughtful, judicious reflection."--John Patrick Diggins, author of The American Left in the Twentieth Century

Interpreting Chekhov
Interpreting Chekhov

Author: Geoffrey Borny

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1920942688

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The author's contention is that Chekhov's plays have often been misinterpreted by scholars and directors, particularly through their failure to adequately balance the comic and tragic elements inherent in these works. Through a close examination of the form and content of Chekhov's dramas, the author shows how deeply pessimistic or overly optimistic interpretations fail to sufficiently account for the rich complexity and ambiguity of these plays. The author suggests that, by accepting that Chekhov's plays are synthetic tragi-comedies which juxtapose potentially tragic sub-texts with essentially comic texts, critics and directors are more likely to produce richer and more deeply satisfying interpretations of these works. Besides being of general interest to any reader interested in understanding Chekhov's work, the book is intended to be of particular interest to students of Drama and Theatre Studies and to potential directors of these subtle plays.