Renaissance England and the Classics
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Köp båda 2 för 751 krReading a book by Stephen Orgel is always an intellectual pleasure. His clear, intelligent, and acute writing leads the reader through the reconstruction of a past literary and cultural tradition, by showing how seemingly small events can have a remarkable meaning when compared with, or set in relation to, a larger panorama...In Wits Treasury Orgel exquisitely show[s] the complexity of creating a cultural identity and of becoming 'classics.' * SKEN Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies * Stephen Orgels Wits Treasury advances a concise and compelling exploration of how early modern writers, artists, and printers employed ancient exempla to self-authorize early English work products...Orgel does much to make 'the classics' accessible by demonumentalizing them, by exposing their essential malleability, and by reiterating that 'nothing in the past is safely in the past, and the dark side of how productive classical models were was how dangerously pertinenthow alivethey could also be.' Overall, Wits Treasury convincingly demonstrates that they still can be. * Renaissance and Reformation * Steven Orgel offers a unique, engaged exploration of classical influences on the written and visual arts in the early modern period...This study is brief, yet comprehensive, [and] offers well-chosen, detailed examples, and his book is a valuable contribution for scholars of early modern literature. * Choice * There are many other books on aspects of sixteenth-century classicism in the arts, literature, education, and the sciences, but none with the combination of erudition, direct engagement with visual and textual material, brevity, and accessibility that Stephen Orgel brings to Wit's Treasury. Orgel is a scholar of unique standing in his field. This is a book to be welcomed wherever Renaissance literature is taught and enjoyed. * Greg Walker, University of Edinburgh *
Stephen Orgel is Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. His most recent books are The Reader in the Book and Spectacular Performances. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta. In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Venice.
Acknowledgments A Note on Quotations Chapter 1. Classicizing England Chapter 2. The Uses of Prosody Chapter 3. The Sound of Classical Chapter 4. What Classical Looks Like Chapter 5. From Black Letter to Roman Chapter 6. Staging the Classical Chapter 7. Looking Backward Coda Notes Bibliography Index