Against reproduction : where Renaissance texts come from / Stephen Guy-Bray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guy-Bray, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Canada] ; Buffalo, [New York] : University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The idea of the author as parent and the text as child is a pervasive metaphor throughout Renaissance poetry and drama. In Against Reproduction, Stephen Guy-Bray sets out to systematically interrogate this common trope, and to consider the limits of using heterosexual reproduction to think of textual creation.Through an analysis of Renaissance texts by poets and playwrights including William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and John Milton, Guy-Bray argues that the reproductive metaphor was only one of the ways in which writers presented their own literary production. Their uses of sexual language reveal that these authors were surprisingly ambivalent about their own writing. Guy-Bray suggests that they often presented their work in such a way as to feminize themselves and to associate the writing process with shame and abjection.Offering fresh perspectives on well-known texts, Against Reproduction is an accessible and compelling book that will affect the study of both Renaissance literature and queer theory.

Contents:

Introduction: the works of art in the age of human reproduction

Marriages

Seductions

Beginnings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed September 23, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4426-8581-6

OCLC:

759157269