The Descent of Euphues
Title | The Descent of Euphues PDF eBook |
Author | James Winny |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2015-02-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107480353 |
Originally published in 1957, this book presents the text of three Elizabethan prose romances in the euphuistic style: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly, Pandosto: The Triumph of Time by Robert Greene and Piers Plainness: Seven Years' Prenticeship by Henry Chettle. A detailed editorial introduction and glossary are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in euphuism and Elizabethan literature.
the decent of euphues
Title | the decent of euphues PDF eBook |
Author | James Winny |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Total Pages | 218 |
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The Descent of Euphues, Three Elizabethan Romance Stories: Euphues, Pandosto [and] Piers Plainness
Title | The Descent of Euphues, Three Elizabethan Romance Stories: Euphues, Pandosto [and] Piers Plainness PDF eBook |
Author | James Winny |
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Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | English prose literature |
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Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature
Title | Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Abe Davies |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2021-06-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030663337 |
This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, ‘constantly beleeve’ that they have an immortal soul. But he also reflects that in fact there is nothing ‘so well established as constrains us to beleeve, both that the soul is immortall, and that every particular man hath such a soul’. In understanding the question of man's disembodied part as at once fundamental and fundamentally uncertain he was entirely of his time, and Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature considers this fraught, shifting, yet uniquely compelling entity in the context of the literary forms and effects involved in its representation. Gruesome medieval dialogues between damned souls and worm-eaten bodies; verse and prose works by Donne, René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish and Andrew Marvell; a profusion of sonnet sequences, sermons, manuals of instruction and travelogues; Hamlet and its natural philosophical thinking about the apparently disembodied soul haunting Elsinore: these chapters range across all this and more, offering a rigorous yet accessible account of an essential aspect of premodern literature that will be of interest to scholars, students and the general reader alike.
John Donne, Undone (Routledge Revivals)
Title | John Donne, Undone (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Docherty |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2014-06-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317685288 |
Contemporary criticism of Donne has tended to ignore the historical culture and ideology that conditioned his writings, reinforcing the traditionally accepted model of the poet as a humanist of ethical, cultural and political individualism. In this title, first published in 1986, Thomas Docherty challenges this with a more rigorously theoretical reading of Donne, particularly in relation to the specific culture of the late Renaissance in Europe. Docherty locates Donne’s poetry at the crux of the various scientific, legal, domestic and rhetorical discourses that surrounded and informed it. With a broadly post-structuralist approach, this reissue will benefit literature students with an interest in the wider study and context of John Donne’s work.
Post-structuralist Readings of English Poetry
Title | Post-structuralist Readings of English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Machin |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 1987-01-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521315838 |
A selection of close-readings of canonical English poems with a focus on ideas and debates in critical theory and literary history.
John Lyly
Title | John Lyly PDF eBook |
Author | John Lyly |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780415969598 |
Three texts are included: a substantial extract from Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, and the plays Campaspe (the first significant comedy of the English Renaissance) and Gallathea (which exercised a considerable influence on Shakespeare).