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Title:

Renaissance tropologies : the cultural imagination of early modern England / edited by Jeanne Shami.

Publisher:

Duquesne University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

x, 382 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Figures of speech in literature.
Rhetoric, Renaissance--England.
Language and culture--England--History--16th century.
Language and culture--England--History--17th century.
England--Civilization--16th century.
England--Civilization--17th century.
Literature and history--England--History--16th century.
Literature and history--England--History--17th century.

Other Authors:

Shami, Jeanne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-363) and index.

Contents:

1. Rex absconditus: justice, presence, and legitimacy in Measure for measure / Gale H. Carrithers Jr. and James D. Hardy Jr. -- 2. Salvific moments in John Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions / Eric C. Brown -- 3. Donne and the state of exception / Greg Kneidel -- 4. Troping religious identity: circumcision and transubstantiation in Donne's sermons / Jeanne Shami -- 5. Vaughan's Life of Paulinus: recharting the royalist journey / Susannah Monta -- 6. Journey and ambassadorship in the marriage literature for Mary Tudor (1496/1533) / A. E. B. Coldiron -- 7. Eucharistic semiotics and the representational formulas of Donne's Ambassadors / Alexandra Mills Block -- 8. Donne and diplomacy / Hugh Adlington -- 9. Dangerous liaisons: "Spider love" in Donne's "Twicknam Garden" / Albert C. Labriola -- 10. Mirror tropes and Renaissance poetry / Ilona Bell -- 11. The ars longa trope in a sublunary world / Kate Narveson -- 12. Habits of thought, structures of feeling / Stephen Pender.

Summary:

"Twelve essays by Renaissance scholars extend the theoretical analysis and application of four tropes -- theater, moment, journey, and ambassadorship -- in examining works by Shakespeare, Donne, and others as a way of providing access into the thought and worldview of early modern England"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance literary studies

ISBN:

0820704091 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820704098 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008032012

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)