Shakespeare's Common Prayers / Daniel Swift

Public ISBD Titre : Shakespeare's Common Prayers : The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Daniel Swift, Auteur Editeur : Oxford [United Kingdom] : Oxford university press Année de publication : 2013 Collection : Oxford Shakespeare Topics Importance : 304 p. Format : 21.1 x 14.7 x 2.4 centimetres (0.43 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-19-983856-1 Langues : Anglais Résumé : Shakespeare's Common Prayers revolves around Shakespeare's great overlooked source: the Book of Common Prayer, first published in 1549, whose appearance established Protestantism as the compulsory belief of the day. Written in a simple vernacular and incorporating familiar Catholic rituals, the book laid out the proper performance of church rites and services. And yet it was also highly disputed and constantly in flux; as Daniel Swift shows, the prayer book's history is one of passionately contested revision and of manic sensitivity to a verb or a turn of phrase. In the book's ambiguities and fierce contestations, Swift argues, William Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama: dispute over words and their practical consequences, hope for sanctification tempered by fear of simple meaninglessness, and the demand for improvised performance as a compensation for the failure of language to do what it appears to promise. Swift offers a study of Shakespeare at work: of his imagination at play upon a set of literary materials from which he both borrowed and learned, of his manipulation of the explosive chemistry of word and action that comprised early modern liturgy. Swift argues that the Book of Common Prayer mediates between the secular and the devotional, producing a tension that helps make Shakespeare's plays so powerful and exceptional. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, Swift redirects scholarly attention to the religious heart of Shakespeare's work and time. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Prologue: A Revel with the Puritans ; Chapter 1: The only book in the world ; Part 1: The form of solemnization of Matrimony ; Chapter 2: For better, for worse ; Chapter 3: Till death us depart ; Part 2: The order for the administration of the Lord's Supper, or holy Communion ; Chapter 4: The Quick and the Dead ; Chapter 5: A gap in our great feast ; Part 3: The ministration of Baptism to be used in the Church ; Chapter 6: Graceless Sacraments ; Chapter 7: Above all Humane Power ; Epilogue: Five or Six Words. Shakespeare's Common Prayers : The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age [texte imprimé] / Daniel Swift, Auteur . - Oxford (United Kingdom) : Oxford university press, 2013 . - 304 p. ; 21.1 x 14.7 x 2.4 centimetres (0.43 kg). - (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) . ISBN : 978-0-19-983856-1 Langues : Anglais Résumé : Shakespeare's Common Prayers revolves around Shakespeare's great overlooked source: the Book of Common Prayer, first published in 1549, whose appearance established Protestantism as the compulsory belief of the day. Written in a simple vernacular and incorporating familiar Catholic rituals, the book laid out the proper performance of church rites and services. And yet it was also highly disputed and constantly in flux; as Daniel Swift shows, the prayer book's history is one of passionately contested revision and of manic sensitivity to a verb or a turn of phrase. In the book's ambiguities and fierce contestations, Swift argues, William Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama: dispute over words and their practical consequences, hope for sanctification tempered by fear of simple meaninglessness, and the demand for improvised performance as a compensation for the failure of language to do what it appears to promise. Swift offers a study of Shakespeare at work: of his imagination at play upon a set of literary materials from which he both borrowed and learned, of his manipulation of the explosive chemistry of word and action that comprised early modern liturgy. Swift argues that the Book of Common Prayer mediates between the secular and the devotional, producing a tension that helps make Shakespeare's plays so powerful and exceptional. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, Swift redirects scholarly attention to the religious heart of Shakespeare's work and time. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Prologue: A Revel with the Puritans ; Chapter 1: The only book in the world ; Part 1: The form of solemnization of Matrimony ; Chapter 2: For better, for worse ; Chapter 3: Till death us depart ; Part 2: The order for the administration of the Lord's Supper, or holy Communion ; Chapter 4: The Quick and the Dead ; Chapter 5: A gap in our great feast ; Part 3: The ministration of Baptism to be used in the Church ; Chapter 6: Graceless Sacraments ; Chapter 7: Above all Humane Power ; Epilogue: Five or Six Words.

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The Archpoet and Medieval Culture / Peter Godman

Public ISBD Titre : The Archpoet and Medieval Culture Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Peter Godman, Auteur Editeur : Oxford [United Kingdom] : Oxford university press Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 304 p. Format : 23.62 x 15.75 x 2.29 centimetres (0.60 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-19-871922-9 Langues : Anglais Résumé : This is the first monograph to be published about one of the most famous and least understood authors of the Latin Middle Ages. We know him by the pseudonym of Archpoet. Setting the Archpoet's world and works in their historical contexts, Peter Godman argues that they provide insight into a brilliant counter-culture of medieval Germany. Its subtlest exponent did not indulge in literary play but refashioned the political, social, and religious roles available to a twelfth-century thinker in order to create, for himself and his patron, an identity alternative to the norms of clerical conformity prevalent elsewhere in Europe. At a time when Germans were being decried as backward barbarians, he produced a manifesto of intellectual heterodoxy which wittily challenged the truth-claims made by humourless moralists. The Archpoet and Medieval Culture reconsiders the categoriesin which the literature of the Middle Ages is interpreted and suggests a less literal mode of reading the sources to historians. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: I. Prelude in the Pub ; II. The Ruin of the World ; III. Culture and Conflict in the Chancery ; IV. Transmontane Identity ; V. 'A Depraved Man Sowing Tares' ; VI. The Anti-Actor ; VII. The Reluctant Encomiast ; VIII. The Penitent at Pavia ; IX. The Preacher of Sin ; X. The Roving Prophet ; XI. The Culture of the Barbarians. The Archpoet and Medieval Culture [texte imprimé] / Peter Godman, Auteur . - Oxford (United Kingdom) : Oxford university press, 2014 . - 304 p. ; 23.62 x 15.75 x 2.29 centimetres (0.60 kg). ISBN : 978-0-19-871922-9 Langues : Anglais Résumé : This is the first monograph to be published about one of the most famous and least understood authors of the Latin Middle Ages. We know him by the pseudonym of Archpoet. Setting the Archpoet's world and works in their historical contexts, Peter Godman argues that they provide insight into a brilliant counter-culture of medieval Germany. Its subtlest exponent did not indulge in literary play but refashioned the political, social, and religious roles available to a twelfth-century thinker in order to create, for himself and his patron, an identity alternative to the norms of clerical conformity prevalent elsewhere in Europe. At a time when Germans were being decried as backward barbarians, he produced a manifesto of intellectual heterodoxy which wittily challenged the truth-claims made by humourless moralists. The Archpoet and Medieval Culture reconsiders the categoriesin which the literature of the Middle Ages is interpreted and suggests a less literal mode of reading the sources to historians. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: I. Prelude in the Pub ; II. The Ruin of the World ; III. Culture and Conflict in the Chancery ; IV. Transmontane Identity ; V. 'A Depraved Man Sowing Tares' ; VI. The Anti-Actor ; VII. The Reluctant Encomiast ; VIII. The Penitent at Pavia ; IX. The Preacher of Sin ; X. The Roving Prophet ; XI. The Culture of the Barbarians.

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Literary Theory / Jonathan Culler

Public ISBD Titre : Literary Theory : A Very Short Introduction Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Jonathan Culler, Auteur Editeur : Oxford [United Kingdom] : Oxford university press Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 184 p. Format : 17.4 x 11.2 x 0.9 centimetres (0.08 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-19-969134-0 Langues : Anglais Résumé : What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study of culture and society in the past two decades, literary theory is accused of undermining respect for tradition and truth and encouraging suspicion about the political and psychological implications of cultural projects rather than admiration for great literature. Here, Jonathan Culler explains 'theory', not by describing warring 'schools' but by sketching key 'moves' theory has encouraged, and speaking directly about the implications of theory for thinking about literature, human identity, and the power of language. In this new edition Culler takes a look at new material, including the 'death of theory', the links between the theory of narrative and cognitive science, trauma theory, ecocriticism, and includes a new chapter on 'Ethics and aesthetics'. This lucid introduction is useful for anyone who has wondered what all the fuss is about or who wants to think about literature today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: 1. What is theory? ; 2. What is literature and does it matter? ; 3. Literature and cultural studies ; 4. Language, meaning, and interpretation ; 5. Rhetoric, poetics, and poetry ; 6. Narrative ; 7. Performative language ; 8. Identity, identification, and the subject ; 9. Ethics and aesthetics ; Appendix: Theoretical schools and movements ; References ; Further Reading ; Index. Literary Theory : A Very Short Introduction [texte imprimé] / Jonathan Culler, Auteur . - Oxford (United Kingdom) : Oxford university press, 2011 . - 184 p. ; 17.4 x 11.2 x 0.9 centimetres (0.08 kg). ISBN : 978-0-19-969134-0 Langues : Anglais Résumé : What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study of culture and society in the past two decades, literary theory is accused of undermining respect for tradition and truth and encouraging suspicion about the political and psychological implications of cultural projects rather than admiration for great literature. Here, Jonathan Culler explains 'theory', not by describing warring 'schools' but by sketching key 'moves' theory has encouraged, and speaking directly about the implications of theory for thinking about literature, human identity, and the power of language. In this new edition Culler takes a look at new material, including the 'death of theory', the links between the theory of narrative and cognitive science, trauma theory, ecocriticism, and includes a new chapter on 'Ethics and aesthetics'. This lucid introduction is useful for anyone who has wondered what all the fuss is about or who wants to think about literature today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: 1. What is theory? ; 2. What is literature and does it matter? ; 3. Literature and cultural studies ; 4. Language, meaning, and interpretation ; 5. Rhetoric, poetics, and poetry ; 6. Narrative ; 7. Performative language ; 8. Identity, identification, and the subject ; 9. Ethics and aesthetics ; Appendix: Theoretical schools and movements ; References ; Further Reading ; Index.

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Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain / Sarah C. E. Ross

Public ISBD Titre : Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sarah C. E. Ross, Auteur Editeur : Oxford [United Kingdom] : Oxford university press Année de publication : 2015 Importance : 272 p. Format : 13.97 x 21.59 x 2.54 centimetres (0.48 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-19-872420-9 Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : Women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland. Résumé : Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, based on poetry that was produced and circulated in manuscript. Katherine Philips is often regarded as the first in a cluster of women writers, including Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, who were political, secular, literary, print-published, and renowned. Sarah C. E. Ross explores a new corpus of political poetry by women, offering detailed readings of Elizabeth Melville, Anne Southwell, Jane Cavendish, Hester Pulter, and Lucy Hutchinson, and making the compelling case that female political poetics emerge out of social and religious poetic modes and out of manuscript-based authorial practices. Situating each writer in her political and intellectual contexts, from early covenanting Scotland to Restoration England, this volume explores women's political articulation in the devotional lyric, biblical verse paraphrase, occasional verse, elegy, and emblem. For women, excluded from the public-political sphere, these rhetorically-modest genres and the figural language of poetry offered vital modes of political expression; and women of diverse affiliations use religious and social poetics, the tropes of family and household, and the genres of occasionality that proliferated in manuscript culture to imagine the state. Attending also to the transmission and reception of women's poetry in networks of varying reach, Sarah C. E. Ross reveals continuities and evolutions in women's relationship to politics and poetry, and identifies a female tradition of politicised poetry in manuscript spanning the decades before, during, and after the Civil Wars. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Introduction: She thinks not on the state? ; 1. 'The right vse of Poesie': Elizabeth Melville's religious verse and Scottish Presbyterian politics ; 2. 'Thou art the nursing father of all pietye': sociality, religion, and politics in Anne Southwell's verse ; 3. 'When that shee heard the drums and cannon play': Jane Cavendish and occasional verse ; 4. 'This kingdoms loss': Hester Pulter's elegies and emblems ; 5. 'I see our nere, to be reentered paradice': Lucy Hutchinson's 'Elegies' and Order and Disorder ; Conclusions. Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain [texte imprimé] / Sarah C. E. Ross, Auteur . - Oxford (United Kingdom) : Oxford university press, 2015 . - 272 p. ; 13.97 x 21.59 x 2.54 centimetres (0.48 kg). ISBN : 978-0-19-872420-9 Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : Women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland. Résumé : Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, based on poetry that was produced and circulated in manuscript. Katherine Philips is often regarded as the first in a cluster of women writers, including Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, who were political, secular, literary, print-published, and renowned. Sarah C. E. Ross explores a new corpus of political poetry by women, offering detailed readings of Elizabeth Melville, Anne Southwell, Jane Cavendish, Hester Pulter, and Lucy Hutchinson, and making the compelling case that female political poetics emerge out of social and religious poetic modes and out of manuscript-based authorial practices. Situating each writer in her political and intellectual contexts, from early covenanting Scotland to Restoration England, this volume explores women's political articulation in the devotional lyric, biblical verse paraphrase, occasional verse, elegy, and emblem. For women, excluded from the public-political sphere, these rhetorically-modest genres and the figural language of poetry offered vital modes of political expression; and women of diverse affiliations use religious and social poetics, the tropes of family and household, and the genres of occasionality that proliferated in manuscript culture to imagine the state. Attending also to the transmission and reception of women's poetry in networks of varying reach, Sarah C. E. Ross reveals continuities and evolutions in women's relationship to politics and poetry, and identifies a female tradition of politicised poetry in manuscript spanning the decades before, during, and after the Civil Wars. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Introduction: She thinks not on the state? ; 1. 'The right vse of Poesie': Elizabeth Melville's religious verse and Scottish Presbyterian politics ; 2. 'Thou art the nursing father of all pietye': sociality, religion, and politics in Anne Southwell's verse ; 3. 'When that shee heard the drums and cannon play': Jane Cavendish and occasional verse ; 4. 'This kingdoms loss': Hester Pulter's elegies and emblems ; 5. 'I see our nere, to be reentered paradice': Lucy Hutchinson's 'Elegies' and Order and Disorder ; Conclusions.

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The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages / Mary Carruthers

Public ISBD Titre : The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mary Carruthers, Auteur Editeur : Oxford [United Kingdom] : Oxford university press Année de publication : 2014 Collection : Oxford-Warburg Studies Importance : 246 p. Format : 21.06 x 18.03 x 1.32 centimetres (0.01 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-19-872325-7 Note générale : This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the field, it offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life, made up of play and laughter as well as serious work. Medieval. Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : Beauty  Middle-Ages. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Introduction: Making Sense ; 1. Artful Play ; 2. Sensory Complexion and Style ; 3. Taking the Bitter with the Sweet ; 4. Taste and Good Taste ; 5. Varietas ; 6. Ordinary Beauty. The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages [texte imprimé] / Mary Carruthers, Auteur . - Oxford (United Kingdom) : Oxford university press, 2014 . - 246 p. ; 21.06 x 18.03 x 1.32 centimetres (0.01 kg). - (Oxford-Warburg Studies) . ISBN : 978-0-19-872325-7 This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the field, it offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life, made up of play and laughter as well as serious work. Medieval. Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : Beauty  Middle-Ages. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Introduction: Making Sense ; 1. Artful Play ; 2. Sensory Complexion and Style ; 3. Taking the Bitter with the Sweet ; 4. Taste and Good Taste ; 5. Varietas ; 6. Ordinary Beauty.

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