Renaissance Posthumanism / Scott Maisano, Joseph Campana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campana, Joseph, Editor.

Maisano, Scott, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanism.

Renaissance.

Humanities.

Post-postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Connecting Renaissance humanism to the variety of “critical posthumanisms” in twenty-first-century literary and cultural theory, Renaissance Posthumanism reconsiders traditional languages of humanism and the human, not by nostalgically enshrining or triumphantly superseding humanisms past but rather by revisiting and interrogating them. What if today’s “critical posthumanisms,” even as they distance themselves from the iconic representations of the Renaissance, are in fact moving ever closer to ideas in works from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century? What if “the human” is at once embedded and embodied in, evolving with, and de-centered amid a weird tangle of animals, environments, and vital materiality? Seeking those patterns of thought and practice, contributors to this collection focus on moments wherein Renaissance humanism looks retrospectively like an uncanny “contemporary”—and ally—of twenty-first-century critical posthumanism.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction: Renaissance Posthumanism

ONE. What Posthumanism Isn’t: On Humanism and Human Exceptionalism in the Renaissance

Two. Titian’s Flaying of Marsyas: Thresholds of the Human and the Limits of Painting

Three. Rabelais’s Silenic Regime: The Fundamentals of Gargantua

Four. A Natural History of Ravishment

Five. Farmyard Choreographies in Early Modern England

Six. Oves et Singulatim: A Multispecies Impression

Seven. Wooden Actors on the En glishe nais sance Stage

Eight. Beyond Human: Visualizing the Sexuality of Abraham Bosse’s Mandrake

Nine. Shakespeare’s Mineral Emotions

Epilogue: H Is for Humanism

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-6956-6

0-8232-6970-1

0-8232-6959-0

0-8232-6958-2

OCLC:

939532703