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Untutored lines : the making of the English epyllion / by William p.Weaver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weaver, William P.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
- Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, English--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, English.
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Sex in literature.
- Sex customs in literature.
- Boys in literature.
- Sex customs--England--History--16th century.
- Sex customs.
- Masculinity--England--History--16th century.
- Masculinity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Other Title:
- Making of the English epyllion
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in this fascinating study of Renaissance education and poetry. Rhetoric, moreover, is erotic. Far being merely formal, rhetoric is the key to deciphering the cultural meanings of an enigmatic genre. Weaver attends to one of the epyllion's defining dramas: boys in transition to adulthood. Whereas recent studies of the epyllion have posited sexuality a
- Contents:
- COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Progymnasmata: Humanist Rites of Passage; Chapter 2 Fabula: Observing 'Amorous Rites' in Hero and Leander; Chapter 3 Chreia: Making Themes in Venus and Adonis; Chapter 4 Narratiuncula: Coming of Age in Oenone and Paris; Chapter 5 Narratio and Confirmatio: Forensic Performance in Lucrece; Chapter 6 Encomium: Antinous as Lord of Misrule in Orchestra; Chapter 7 Thesis: Controlling Speech in Cephalus and Procris; Epilogue Jesus' First Exercises in Paradise Regained; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p.[203]-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-4466-0
- OCLC:
- 795695180
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