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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... sense of 'changing form'. And as we shall see, geometry accomplishes this feat not, or not merely, through language and verbal argument but through showing, or the visual demonstration of its figures—like the theatre, in which objects ...
... sense of 'changing form'. And as we shall see, geometry accomplishes this feat not, or not merely, through language and verbal argument but through showing, or the visual demonstration of its figures—like the theatre, in which objects ...
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... sense of disciplinary categories are the subject of the book that follows. Each chapter describes a convergence between literary and scientific epistemologies in England, during a period when both fields were in a crucial moment of ...
... sense of disciplinary categories are the subject of the book that follows. Each chapter describes a convergence between literary and scientific epistemologies in England, during a period when both fields were in a crucial moment of ...
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... sense of the playwright's epistemological 10 See esp. Long (1985, 1997, 2001); Vérin (1993); P. Smith (1994); Rossi (1968, 1970); PerezRamos (1988); Eamon (1994); Bono (1995, 2004a, b); W. R. Newman (1989); Grafton (1999) ...
... sense of the playwright's epistemological 10 See esp. Long (1985, 1997, 2001); Vérin (1993); P. Smith (1994); Rossi (1968, 1970); PerezRamos (1988); Eamon (1994); Bono (1995, 2004a, b); W. R. Newman (1989); Grafton (1999) ...
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... sense it supplements notions of form in New Criticism that would ignore the concrete physical conditions subtending representation. One of the enduring contributions of the so-called 'new New Bibliography', after all, has been to point ...
... sense it supplements notions of form in New Criticism that would ignore the concrete physical conditions subtending representation. One of the enduring contributions of the so-called 'new New Bibliography', after all, has been to point ...
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... sense that the work of both Barthes and Bourdieu makes available: as an analytic principle of particularization and specificity that I use to identify the basic protocols that organize any act of expression, 'literary' or otherwise ...
... sense that the work of both Barthes and Bourdieu makes available: as an analytic principle of particularization and specificity that I use to identify the basic protocols that organize any act of expression, 'literary' or otherwise ...
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