The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630OUP Oxford, 2006 M02 23 - 344 pages Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 examines the history of English dramatic form and its relationship to the mathematics, technology, and early scientific thought during the Renaissance period. The book demonstrates how practical modes of thinking that were typical of the sixteenth century resulted in new genres of plays and a new vocabulary for problems of poetic representation. In the epistemological moment the book recovers, we find new ideas about form and language that would become central to Renaissance literary discourse; in this same moment, too, we find new ways of thinking about the relationship between theory and practice that are typical of modernity, new attitudes towards spatial representation, and a new interest in both poetics and mathematics as distinctive ways of producing knowledge about the world. By emphasizing the importance of theatrical performance, the book engages with continuing debates over the cultural function of the early modern stage and with scholarship on the status of modern authorship. When we consider playwrights in relation to the theatre rather than the printed book, they appear less as 'authors' than as figures whose social position and epistemological presuppositions were very similar to the craftsmen, surveyors, and engineers who began to flourish during the sixteenth century and whose mathematical knowledge made them increasingly sought after by men of wealth and power. |
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Page ix
... dialectical movement between the semiological and the institutional aspects of its existence, or what Fredric Jameson has described as 'the jumping of a spark between two poles' (1971: 4): 'form' is the mode through which ideas are made ...
... dialectical movement between the semiological and the institutional aspects of its existence, or what Fredric Jameson has described as 'the jumping of a spark between two poles' (1971: 4): 'form' is the mode through which ideas are made ...
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... dialectical methodology that could embed the drama in early-modern culture more broadly, it tended to emphasize the unique institutional realities of the public theatres; critical interest in the formal techniques of performance tended ...
... dialectical methodology that could embed the drama in early-modern culture more broadly, it tended to emphasize the unique institutional realities of the public theatres; critical interest in the formal techniques of performance tended ...
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... dialectical moment where matter sublates into form and form collapses into matter , and , at the same time , providing the foundation , along with other geometrical units such as the line and the figure , for a mathematical syntax of ...
... dialectical moment where matter sublates into form and form collapses into matter , and , at the same time , providing the foundation , along with other geometrical units such as the line and the figure , for a mathematical syntax of ...
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... dialectic and in the field of poetic discourse , has been largely ignored in scholarship on the history of science , which has tended to focus on developments within the fields of mechanics , natural philosophy , or astronomy ( those ...
... dialectic and in the field of poetic discourse , has been largely ignored in scholarship on the history of science , which has tended to focus on developments within the fields of mechanics , natural philosophy , or astronomy ( those ...
Page 14
... dialectic , and prudence - Aristotle's phronēsis , or deliberation about human action - on the one hand , and a growing interest on the part of the educated gentleman in technology and the practical geometrical fields of building ...
... dialectic , and prudence - Aristotle's phronēsis , or deliberation about human action - on the one hand , and a growing interest on the part of the educated gentleman in technology and the practical geometrical fields of building ...
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