Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry
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Wendy Beth Hyman examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation in the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions focused on the lovers' anticipated decline, investigated the nature of matter, time, and poetic...
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Wendy Beth Hyman examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation in the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions focused on the lovers' anticipated decline, investigated the nature of matter, time, and poetic representation, and became a vehicle for articulating religious doubt.
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Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments or promises, but instead focus on the lovers' anticipated decline, and--quite stunningly given the Reformation context--humanity's relegation not to a Christian afterlife but to a Marvellian 'desert of vast Eternity.' In this way, a poetic trope whose classical form was an expression of pragmatic Epicureanism became, during the religious upheaval of the Reformation, an unlikely but effective vehicle for articulating religious doubt. Its ambitions were thus largely philosophical, and came to incorporate investigations into the nature of matter, time, and poetic representation. Renaissance seduction poets invited their auditors to participate in a dangerous intellectual game, one whose primary interest was expanding the limits of knowledge. The book theorizes how Renaissance lyric's own fragile relationship to materiality and time, and its self-conscious relationship to making, positioned it to grapple with these 'impossible' metaphysical and representational problems. Although attentive to poetics, the book also challenges the commonplace view that the erotic invitation is exclusively a lyrical mode. Carpe diem's revival in post-Reformation Europe portends its radicalization, as debates between man and maid are dramatized in disputes between abstractions like chastity and material facts like death. Offered here is thus a theoretical reconsideration of the generic parameters and aspirations of the carpe diem trope, wherein questions about embodiment and knowledge are also investigations into the potentialities of literary form.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry “
- Introduction: The Limits of the Possible
- 1: Poetry and Matter in the English Renaissance
- 2: The Erotics of Doubt
- 3: Telling Time on the Body
- 4: Seizing the 'Point Imaginary'
- 5: Saying No and Saying Yes
- Afterword: Learning to Imagine What We Know
- Bibliography
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Wendy Beth Hyman
Wendy Beth Hyman is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College. She received her MA and PhD from Harvard University, and her BA at Smith College. Professor Hyman is the editor of The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature, and, with Hillary Eklund, co-editor of Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare. She has published on early modern mechanical birds, Spenser's Faerie Queene, the influence of literary insects on early microscopy, physics and metaphysics in early modern lyric, jacquemarts and Jack Falstaff, Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller, metaphoricity and science, and the pedagogy of book history.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Wendy Beth Hyman
- 2019, 216 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198837518
- ISBN-13: 9780198837510
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
She has wonderful things to say Joseph Loewenstein, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
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