The Cambridge history of literary criticism. Volume 3, The Renaissance / edited by Glyn P. Norton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norton, Glyn P., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--History.

Criticism.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 758 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Summary:

This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.

Contents:

Reading and interpretation : an emerging discourse of poetics

Theories of language / Richard Waswo

Renaissance exegesis / Michel Jeanneret

Evangelism and Erasmus / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

The assimilation of Aristotle's Poetics in sixteenth-century Italy / Daniel Javitch

Horace in the sixteenth century : commentators into critics / Ann Moss

Cicero and Quintilian / John O. Ward

Poetics

Humanist classifications

Humanist classifications of poetry among the arts and sciences / William J. Kennedy

Theories of poetry : Latin writers / Ann Moss

The rediscovery and transmission of materials

Literary imitation in the sixteenth century : writers and readers, Latin and French / Ann Moss

Petrarchan poetics / William J. Kennedy

Translatio and translation in the Renaissance : from Italy to France / Valerie Worth-Stylianou

Invention / Ullrich Langer

Rhetorical poetics

Humanist education / Ann Moss

Second rhetoric and the grands rhétoriqueurs / Robert Griffin

The rhetoric of presence : art, literature, and illusion / Franc̜ois Rigolot

The paradoxical sisterhood : 'ut pictura poesis' / Chrisopher Braider

Conceptions of style / Debora Shuger

Sir Philip Sidney's An apology for poetry / Wesley Trimpi

Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus : the conception of reader response / Nicholas Cronk

Literary forms

Italian epic theory / Daniel Javitch

The lyric / Roland Greene

Renaissance theatre and the theory of tragedy / Timothy J. Reiss

Elizabethan theatrical genres and literary theory / George K. Hunter

Defining comedy in the seventeenth century : moral sense and theatrical sensibility / G.J. Mallinson

Dialogue and discussion in the Renaissance / David Marsh

The essay as criticism / Floyd Gray

The genres of epigram and emblem / Daniel Russell

Humour and satire in the Renaissance / Anne Lake Prescott

Theories of prose fiction

Theories of prose fiction in England : 1558-1700 / Paul Salzman

Theories of prose fiction in sixteenth-century France / Glyn P. Norton

Seventeenth-century theories of the novel in France : writing and reading the truth / G.J. Mallinson

Theories of prose fiction and poetics in Italy : novella and romanzo (1525-1596) / Glyn P. Norton with Marga Cottino-Jones

Contexts of criticism : metropolitan culture and socio-literary environments

Criticism and the metropolis : Tudor-Stuart London / Lawrence Manley

Criticism in the city : Lyons and Paris / Timothy Hampton

Culture, imperialism, and humanist criticism in the Italian city-states / Diana Robin

German-speaking centres and institutions / James A. Parente, Jr.

Courts and patronage / Michael Schoenfeldt

Rooms of their own : literary salons in seventeenth-century France / Joan DeJean

Renaissance printing and the book trade / George Hoffmann

Voices of dissent

The Ciceronian controversy / John Monfasani

Reorganizing the encyclopaedia : Vives and Ramus on Aristotle and the scholastics / Martin Elsky

The rise of the vernaculars / Richard Waswo

Ancients and moderns : France / Terence Cave

Women as auctores in early modern Europe / Elizabeth Guild

Structures of thought

Renaissance Neoplatonism / Michael J.B. Allen

Cosmography and poetics / Fernand Hallyn

Natural philosophy and the 'new science' / Ann Blair

Stoicism and Epicureanism : philosophical revival and literary repercussions / Jill Kraye

Calvinism and post-Tridentine developments / Catherine Randall

Port-Royal and Jansenism / Richard Parish

Neoclassical issues : beauty, judgement, persuasion, polemics

Combative criticism : Jonson, Milton, and classical literary criticism in England / Colin Burrow

The rhetorical ideal in France / Hugh M. Davidson

Cartesian aesthetics / Timothy J. Reiss

Principles of judgement : probability, decorum, taste, and the je ne sais quoi / Michael Moriarty

Longinus and the sublime / John Logan

A survey of national developments

Seventeenth-century English literary criticism : classical values, English texts and contexts / Joshua Scodel

French criticism in the seventeenth century / Michael Moriarty

Literary-critical developments in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy / Marga Cottino-Jones

Cultural commentary in seventeenth-century Spain: literary theory and textual practice / Marina Brownlee

The German-speaking countries / Peter Skrine

The low countries / Theo Hermans.

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