Orgel Stephen Wit`s Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics 9780812253276

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Автор: Orgel Stephen
Название: Wit`s Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics
ISBN: 9780812253276
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литература: история и критика

Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

ISBN-10: 0812253272
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 216
Вес: 0.49 кг.
Дата издания: 06.08.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 44 bw halftones
Размер: 230 x 152 x 28
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800,Literature: history & criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
Подзаголовок: Renaissance england and the classics
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Поставляется из: Англии
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As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners—indeed, the whole national style—through adapting the classics. But how could English literature, art, and culture, become classical, not only in imitating the ancients, but in the sense subsequently applied to music: classical as opposed to popular, as formal, serious, and therefore as good?
For several decades in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Stephen Orgel writes, the return to the classics held out the promise of refinement and civility. Poetry was to be modeled on Greek and Roman examples rather than on the great English medieval works, which though admirable, lacked correctness. More than poetry was at stake, however, and the transition would not be easy. Classical rules seemed the wave of the future, rescuing England from what was seen as the crudeness and the sheer popularity of its native traditions, but advocacy was tempered with a good deal of ambivalence: classical manners and morals were often at variance with Christian principles, and the classicism of the age would need to be deeply revisionist. Christian humanism was never untroubled, Orgel writes, always an unstable or even paradoxical amalgam.
In Wits Treasury, one of our foremost interpreters of Renaissance literature and culture charts how this ambivalence yielded the rich creative tension out of which emerged an unprecedented flowering of drama, lyric, and the arts. Orgel has here written a book that will appeal to anyone interested in English Renaissance art and literature, and particularly in the cultural ferment that produced Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Jonson, and Milton.

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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
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Wit`s Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics, Orgel Stephen