Patrick Cheney

Gebundenes Buch

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry

Beschreibung

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings ofindividual poems with a critical consideration of the historicalcontext in which they were written. Informative and original, thisbook has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand,enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry.
Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems,canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print andmanuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres
Poems read within their historical context, with reference tofive major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, theReformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, andthe scientific revolution
Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, IsabellaWhitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary SidneyHerbert, Donne, and Shakespeare
Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare'smajor poems - Venus and Adonis , The Rape of Lucrece , The Phoenix and Turtle, the Sonnets , and A Lover sComplaint- in the context of his dramatic career
Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato,Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, PercyBysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and HelenVendler

Autor

Patrick Cheney is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. He is the author of books on Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser, most recently Shakespeare's Literary Authorship (2008) and Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime (2009). He has also edited Cambridge Companions to Marlowe and Shakespeare's Poetry, co-edited Oxford Companions to early modern English poetry and drama, and co-edited an Oxford edition of Marlowe's poems. Currently, he serves as a General Editor of The Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781405169547
• ISBN-10: 1405169540
• Artikelnr.: 33239090

Rezensionen

"Highly useful in addressing the formal and generic concerns of sixteenth-century poets, and thus in demonstrating close reading, Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry fails to address the equally important political and theoretical period discourses or the methodologies needed to address them. The unbalanced infatuation with authorial vocation and authorial perspectives thus limits the usefulness of the text. Cheney's companion text may thus represent a more widespread return to traditional author-centered interpretive theories and a
turn away from poststructural approaches." (Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 1 December 2012) "Cheney's eye for such intertextual allusion transforms what could have been a series of isolated close readings into a delicately unified exposition of a century's worth of literary dialogue." (Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 2011)

"A carefully selected bibliography that focuses on background sources as well as on primary works and significant critical material is a valuable supplement to the author's consideration of the poetry. Cheney develops his thesis clearly and makes an important contribution to Renaissance scholarship. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 October 2011)