Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity
Auteur : Harmer James
Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late sixteenth century. It considers the reflections of Renaissance English writers upon the problem of how linguistic meaning is created in their work. The book achieves this consideration by placing its Renaissance authors in the context of the dominant conceptualisation of the thought-language relationship in the Western tradition: namely, that of 'introspection'. In taking this route, author James Harmer undertakes to provide a comprehensive overview of the notion of 'introspection' from classical times to the Renaissance, and demonstrates how complex and even strange this notion is often seen to be by thinkers and writers. Harmer also shows how poetry and literary discourse in general stands at the centre of the conceptual consideration of what linguistic thinking is. He then argues, through a range of close readings of Renaissance texts, that writers of the Shakespearean period increase the fragility of the notion of 'introspection' in such a way as to make the prospect of any systematic theory of meaning seem extremely remote. Embracing and exploring the possibility that thinking about meaning can only occur in the context of extreme cognitive and psychological limitation, these texts emerge as proponents of a human mind which is remarkably free in its linguistic nature; an irresistible mode of life unto itself. The final argumentative stratum of the book explores the implications of this approach for understanding the relationship between literary criticism, philosophy, and other kinds of critical activity. Texts discussed at length include Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and shorter poetry, George Chapman's Ovids Banquet of Sence, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, and John Donne's Elegies.
Date de parution : 12-2019
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Mots-clés :
Ovids Banquet; Linguistic Creativity; Du Bartas; Chapman’s Poem; Vp; Ralph Lever; Ovidian Persona; Faerie Queene; Ovidian Text; Matthew Roydon; Platonic Epistemology; Ovid’s Heroides; Renaissance Platonism; Bent Stick; Shepheardes Calender; Introspective Thought; Burne; Ficino’s De Amore; Linguistic Thought; Vice Versa; Ovidian Poetry; Persona; Chapman’s Poetry; Donne’s Poem; Wax Block