Subject and Object in Renaissance CultureMargreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations. |
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... male figures in similar gestural contexts ; in each instance no certain means can be found for fixing the body within a stable , asexual allegorical meaning . Demonstrating that it is impossible not to see the surface gesture as well as ...
... male figures in similar gestural contexts ; in each instance no certain means can be found for fixing the body within a stable , asexual allegorical meaning . Demonstrating that it is impossible not to see the surface gesture as well as ...
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... male and female work . Along with Quilligan , Margaret Ferguson considers gender in relation- ship to what Arjun Appadurai has called the " social life of things , " in this case , feathers as they circulate ( or are 8 Margreta de ...
... male and female work . Along with Quilligan , Margaret Ferguson considers gender in relation- ship to what Arjun Appadurai has called the " social life of things , " in this case , feathers as they circulate ( or are 8 Margreta de ...
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... male original . Discus- sions of the translation have , therefore , missed the extent to which its complicated switches of gender between speakers ( both Petrarch and Mary Sidney ) and lost objects ( both Laura and Philip Sidney ) allow ...
... male original . Discus- sions of the translation have , therefore , missed the extent to which its complicated switches of gender between speakers ( both Petrarch and Mary Sidney ) and lost objects ( both Laura and Philip Sidney ) allow ...
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... Male and female bodies alike depended upon performance , on the after - effects of simulation . Jonathan Dollimore's essay also concerns desire , not as mimesis impossible to detect but as lack impossible to fill . Desire is driven less ...
... Male and female bodies alike depended upon performance , on the after - effects of simulation . Jonathan Dollimore's essay also concerns desire , not as mimesis impossible to detect but as lack impossible to fill . Desire is driven less ...
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... male gendering of this individual , see the Introduction to Margaret W. Ferguson , Maureen Quilligan , and Nancy J. Vickers , eds . , Rewriting the Renaissance : The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe ( Chicago and ...
... male gendering of this individual , see the Introduction to Margaret W. Ferguson , Maureen Quilligan , and Nancy J. Vickers , eds . , Rewriting the Renaissance : The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe ( Chicago and ...
Contents
The ideology of superfluous things King Lear as period piece | 17 |
Rude mechanicals | 43 |
Spensers domestic domain poetry property and the Early Modern subject | 83 |
Materializations | 131 |
Gendering the Crown | 133 |
The unauthored 1539 volume in which is printed the Hecatomphile The Flowers of French Poetry and Other Soothing Things | 166 |
Dematerializations textile and textual properties in Ovid Sandys and Spenser | 189 |
Appropriations | 211 |
Unlearning the Aztec cantares preliminaries to a postcolonial history | 260 |
Fetishisms | 287 |
Worn worlds clothes and identity on the Renaissance stage | 289 |
The Countess of Pembrokes literal translation | 321 |
Remnants of the sacred in Early Modern England | 337 |
Objections | 347 |
The insincerity of women | 349 |
Desire is death | 369 |
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Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture Margreta de Grazia,Maureen Quilligan,Peter Stallybrass No preview available - 1996 |
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