Go Figure : : Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World /

Go Figure : : Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World / / ed. by Judith H. Anderson, Joan Pong Linton.

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Go Figure addresses theories of the figure and practices of figuration ranging from classical rhetoric and biblical exegesis to semiotics, psychoanalysis, and socio-politics. Situating theory in history, the essays in this volume focus on verbal and visual texts from the sixteenth to the eighteenth...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Judith H.,
Berger, Harry,
Crane, Mary Thomas,
Dubrow, Heather,
Gallagher, Lowell,
Glimp, David,
Hedrick, Donald,
Pong Linton, Joan,
Yates, Julian,
Zurcher, Amelia,
HerausgeberIn:
Anderson, Judith H.,
Pong Linton, Joan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Spenser’s Giant and the New Science
  • The Sacramental Neuter and the Missing Body in Robert Southwell’s Poetics
  • Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet
  • The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle’s Parthenissa
  • Caterpillage: Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting
  • Figuring Belief: George Herbert’s Devotional Creatures
  • Entertaining Friends: Falstaff ’s Parasitology
  • Skin Merchants: Jack Cade’s Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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