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Literary Criticism

Lucretian Renaissance Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition

Passannante Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780226648491, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
264 pp., 20.5x14 cm

With "The Lucretian Renaissance", Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of t...

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Literary Criticism

Poet's Freedom A Notebook on Making

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226773872, ISBN: HB: 9780226773865, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm

Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in "The Poet's Freed...

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Literary Criticism

Unrepentant Renaissance From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

Strier Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226777511, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm

Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinfor...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Freedom

Greenblatt Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226306674, ISBN: HB: 9780226306667, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes – of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and ver...

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Literary Criticism

Enlightenment Orientalism Resisting the Rise of the Novel

Aravamudan Srinivas

ISBN: PB: 9780226024493, ISBN: HB: 9780226024486, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones

Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent q...

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