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The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Politics and Poetics of Transgression

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Applying the insights of Mikhail Bakhtin and recent French critical theorists to the concept of hierarchies in Western society, Stallybrass and White explore the symbolic polarities of the exalted and the base. The authors compare high and low discourse in a variety of domains, and discover that, in every case, the polarities structure and depend upon each other and, in certain instances, interpenetrate to produce political change. In this wide-ranging book, the authors, drawing largely on Bakhtin's notion of the carnival, map out hierarchies in literary and cultural history. Looking closely at a variety of texts from the 17th to the 20th century, they find that high-low oppositions occur i...

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.

The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Politics and Poetics of Transgression

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Applying the insights of Mikhail Bakhtin and recent French critical theorists to the concept of hierarchies in Western society, Stallybrass and White explore the symbolic polarities of the exalted and the base. The authors compare high and low discourse in a variety of domains, and discover that, in every case, the polarities structure and depend upon each other and, in certain instances, interpenetrate to produce political change. -- Molyblog.

Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture

This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations.

Books and Readers in Early Modern England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Books and Readers in Early Modern England

Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and print cultures, examining the emergence of the "public spheres" of reading practices. Contributors, who include Christopher Grose, Ann Hughes, David Scott Kastan, Kathleen Lynch, William S...

Language Machines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Language Machines

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Language Machines questions any easily progressive model of technological change, demonstrating the persistence rather than the obsolescence of language technologies over time, the continuous and complicated overlap of pens, presses, screens and voice. In these essays new technologies do not simply replace, but rather draw upon, absorb, displace and resituate earlier technologies.

The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship

An introduction to studying and editing texts in all forms, from manuscript to digital.

Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity

Cultural memory and the Construction of Identity brings together scholars of folklore, literature, history, and communication to explore the dynamics of cultural memory in a variety of contexts. Memory is a powerful tool that can transform a piece of earth into a homeland and common objects into symbols. The authors of this volume show how memory is shaped and how it operates in uniting society and creating images that attain the value of truth even if they deviate from fact.

Border Fetishisms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Border Fetishisms

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The essays in Border Fetishisms explore the cultural, commercial, political and erotic dimensions that distinguish fetish formations in fractured colonial and postcolonial spaces. Spanning such topics as Surinamese conversion to Christianity to shoplifting in Georgian England, to face the fetish, the contributors neither demagicalize the fetish nor normalize the commodity. Instead, they call for the inclusion of material things -- as fetishes or not -- within the experience of human sufferings and joy. Contributors: Robert J. Foster, Webb Keane, Susan Leg6~ne, Annelies Moors, Peter Pels, William Pietz, Adela Pinch, Patricia Spyer, Peter Stallybrass, Michael Taussig.

Visible Writings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Visible Writings

"This vastly learned, superbly illustrated collection has not a dull text within it. I was enlightened and fascinated by every essay on every topic. Visible Writings is a book to treasure."-Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY --