Renaissance Posthumanism / / ed. by Joseph Campana, Scott Maisano.

Connecting Renaissance humanism to the variety of "critical posthumanisms" in twenty-first-century literary and cultural theory, Renaissance Posthumanism reconsiders traditional languages of humanism and the human, not by nostalgically enshrining or triumphantly superseding humanisms past...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Renaissance Posthumanism
  • ONE. What Posthumanism Isn't: On Humanism and Human Exceptionalism in the Renaissance
  • Two. Titian's Flaying of Marsyas: Thresholds of the Human and the Limits of Painting
  • Three. Rabelais's Silenic Regime: The Fundamentals of Gargantua
  • Four. A Natural History of Ravishment
  • Five. Farmyard Choreographies in Early Modern England
  • Six. Oves et Singulatim: A Multispecies Impression
  • Seven. Wooden Actors on the En glish Re nais sance Stage
  • Eight. Beyond Human: Visualizing the Sexuality of Abraham Bosse's Mandrake
  • Nine. Shakespeare's Mineral Emotions
  • Epilogue: H Is for Humanism
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index