Solitude and Speechlessness : : Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation / / Andrew Mattison.
Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue. Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an alternative understanding of writing with a complementary mode of reading: literary...
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Mattison, Andrew, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Solitude and Speechlessness : Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation / Andrew Mattison. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing in Solitude -- 1. Lyric Futures: Hidden Ambitions in the Sidney-Pembroke Circle -- 2. Nameless Orphans: Ambitious Poetry in an Age of Modesty -- 3. The Peril of Understanding: Forms of Obscurity -- 4. The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions -- 5. The Naked Sense of Retirement: Cowley, Marvell, Traherne -- 6. Literary History in Isolation: Bacon, Hofmannsthal, and Historical Memory -- Conclusion: Reading in Solitude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue. Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an alternative understanding of writing with a complementary mode of reading: literary engagement, it suggests, is the meeting of strangers, each in a state of isolation. The Renaissance authors discussed in this study did not necessarily work alone or without collaborators, but they were uncertain who would read their writings and whether those readers would understand them. These concerns are represented in their work through tropes, images, and characterizations of isolation. The figure of the isolated, misunderstood, or misjudged poet is a preoccupation that relies on imagining the lives of wandering and complaining youths, eloquent melancholics, exemplary hermits, homeless orphans, and retiring stoics; such figures acknowledge the isolation in literary experience. As a response to this isolation of literary connection, Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an interpretive mode it defines as strange reading: a reading that merges comprehension with indeterminacy and the imaginative work of interpretation with the recognition of historical difference. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) Authorship. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Social isolation in literature. Solitude in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. bisacsh Aemilia Lanyer. Andrew Marvell. Francis Bacon. John Donne. Shakespeare. Sidney-Pembroke Circle. Thomas Traherne. ascetics. authorship. hermits. isolation. melancholy. obscurity. poets. solitude. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2019 English 9783110610369 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2019 9783110606348 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110652062 print 9781487504045 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487519322 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487519322 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487519322.jpg |
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Mattison, Andrew, Mattison, Andrew, Solitude and Speechlessness : Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing in Solitude -- 1. Lyric Futures: Hidden Ambitions in the Sidney-Pembroke Circle -- 2. Nameless Orphans: Ambitious Poetry in an Age of Modesty -- 3. The Peril of Understanding: Forms of Obscurity -- 4. The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions -- 5. The Naked Sense of Retirement: Cowley, Marvell, Traherne -- 6. Literary History in Isolation: Bacon, Hofmannsthal, and Historical Memory -- Conclusion: Reading in Solitude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing in Solitude -- 1. Lyric Futures: Hidden Ambitions in the Sidney-Pembroke Circle -- 2. Nameless Orphans: Ambitious Poetry in an Age of Modesty -- 3. The Peril of Understanding: Forms of Obscurity -- 4. The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions -- 5. The Naked Sense of Retirement: Cowley, Marvell, Traherne -- 6. Literary History in Isolation: Bacon, Hofmannsthal, and Historical Memory -- Conclusion: Reading in Solitude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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