Sir Thomas Wyatt and the rhetoric of rewriting : 'turning the word' / Chris Stamatakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stamatakis, Chris, 1983-

Series:

Oxford English monographs.

Oxford English monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--England--History--16th century.

Rhetoric.

Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542--Criticism and interpretation.

Wyatt, Thomas.

Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542--Technique.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chris Stamatakis reappraises Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1504-1542) as a poetic innovator from the literary avant-garde of early Tudor England. He discusses Wyatt's reflections on the writing process, and his awareness of how words can be turned in new directions - that is, rewritten, amended, transformed, manipulated, even performed - over the course of a text's production, transmission, and reception. Where previous studies have read Wyatt's poetry from a largely biographical standpoint,this book examines the reading practices of his Tudor audiences and editors, and it considers the different types

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note on Transcription; Prologue: What's in a Name?; 1. 'Torne the worde': Literary Practice in the Early Sixteenth Century; 2. 'This word redeme': Redemptive Paraphrase in the Penitential Psalms; 3. 'For your forder aduertisement': Performative Rescription in Wyatt's Letters and Verse Epistles; Wyatt's Paternal Letters and Material Performance; Wyatt's Diplomatic Letters: Rewriting and Performative Prompts; Wyatt's Verse Epistles and Readerly Rescription; 4. 'Pastyme with good companye': Balets and Answer-Words

Epilogue: 'Continuell chaunge'Appendix 1: Conspectus of Manuscripts; Appendix 2: Poems Common to Egerton and Other Principal Witnesses; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613623584

0-19-163640-1

1-280-59375-X

OCLC:

784886705