At zero point : discourse, culture, and satire in Restoration England / Rose A. Zimbardo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimbardo, Rose A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire, English--History and criticism.

Satire, English.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Semiotics and literature--England--History--17th century.

Semiotics and literature.

Language and culture--England--History--17th century.

Language and culture.

Great Britain--History--Restoration, 1660-1688.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At Zero Point presents an entirely new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse, and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the eighteenth century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the seventeenth century. Rose Zimbardo's hypothesis is based on Hans Blumenberg's concept of ""zero point"" -- the moment when an epistemology collapses under the weight of questions it has itself raised and simultaneously a new epistemology begins to construct itself. Zimbardo demonstrates that the Restoration marked both the collapse of the Re

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""From Words to Experimental Philosophy"": Language and Logic at Restoration Zero Point; 2. The Semiotics of Restoration Deconstructive Satire; 3. No ""I"" and No ""Eye""; I. ""Author,"" ""Speaker,"" ""Character"" in Restoration Deconstructive Satire; II. Not Him: Oldham's ""Aude aliquid. Ode""; III. Not Them: Wycherley's The Plain Dealer; IV. No-One, No-Place, No-Thing: Swift's Tale of a Tub; 4. Genders, Sexualities, and Discourse at Restoration Zero Point

5. The Discursively Central ""I"" and the Telescope of DiscourseI. ""The Proper Study of Mankind is M(E)""; II. Ordered and Ordering: The NewTheory of Satire; III. Satiric Discourse and the Sacred Nation; IV. The ""Other"" End of the Telescope; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-189) and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813185125

0813185122

9780813158587

0813158583

OCLC:

606984896