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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... Object in Renais- sance Culture puts things back into relation with persons ; in the process , it elicits new critical readings and new cultural configurations . Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 8 Subject and.
... Object in Renais- sance Culture puts things back into relation with persons ; in the process , it elicits new critical readings and new cultural configurations . Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 8 Subject and.
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... the late twentieth century . Her present work addresses the relationship between genre and technology in lyric poetry and music video . Acknowledgments The essays in this volume were first written for xvi Notes on the contributors.
... the late twentieth century . Her present work addresses the relationship between genre and technology in lyric poetry and music video . Acknowledgments The essays in this volume were first written for xvi Notes on the contributors.
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... relation ? At the outset of this inquiry , it may be useful to turn to an account that , like the vanitas still - lifes , questions the viability of separating subject and object . In the " Lordship and Bondage " section of Hegel's ...
... relation ? At the outset of this inquiry , it may be useful to turn to an account that , like the vanitas still - lifes , questions the viability of separating subject and object . In the " Lordship and Bondage " section of Hegel's ...
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... relation to objects . In this respect , the Renaissance subject begins with just that full consciousness of itself that is the ultimate ( though hardly assured ) end of the Hegelian dialectic of the subject / object or lord / bondsman ...
... relation to objects . In this respect , the Renaissance subject begins with just that full consciousness of itself that is the ultimate ( though hardly assured ) end of the Hegelian dialectic of the subject / object or lord / bondsman ...
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... relation not to the lord but to the object she or he is working upon in what Marx terms " a human manner . " 13 The object made then takes on inestimable value . For , in working upon it , the bondsman comes to recognize her or his ...
... relation not to the lord but to the object she or he is working upon in what Marx terms " a human manner . " 13 The object made then takes on inestimable value . For , in working upon it , the bondsman comes to recognize her or his ...
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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