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 vii
... social activity: poetics and early scientific thought. Taken as a whole, the book presents one stage in the historical formation of the disciplines that we today identify as 'literature' and 'science' by examining the pre-modern ...
... social activity: poetics and early scientific thought. Taken as a whole, the book presents one stage in the historical formation of the disciplines that we today identify as 'literature' and 'science' by examining the pre-modern ...
Page viii
... social and institutional production of knowledge, as well as the representational modes through which knowledge is legitimized and transmitted. The book reiterates the principle that the 'history of ideas' must in fact be understood as ...
... social and institutional production of knowledge, as well as the representational modes through which knowledge is legitimized and transmitted. The book reiterates the principle that the 'history of ideas' must in fact be understood as ...
Page ix
... social and institutional contexts through which texts, in their formalized state, begin to circulate. To argue in this way is, first, to reassert the indispensability of a category of 'form' to any mode of criticism that seeks to ...
... social and institutional contexts through which texts, in their formalized state, begin to circulate. To argue in this way is, first, to reassert the indispensability of a category of 'form' to any mode of criticism that seeks to ...
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... social, economic, and political conditions. As the project developed, it became increasingly clear that some of the most innovative recent scholarship had come to overlook important intellectual traditions that also informed English ...
... social, economic, and political conditions. As the project developed, it became increasingly clear that some of the most innovative recent scholarship had come to overlook important intellectual traditions that also informed English ...
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... social life. As a consequence, a more complete analysis of drama in performance tended to become subordinated to a formal analysis of power, on the one hand, or to an analysis of social contradictions mediated through symbolic form, on ...
... social life. As a consequence, a more complete analysis of drama in performance tended to become subordinated to a formal analysis of power, on the one hand, or to an analysis of social contradictions mediated through symbolic form, on ...
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The English Renaissance Stage:Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial ... Henry S. Turner No preview available - 2006 |
The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial ... Henry S. Turner No preview available - 2010 |
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