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  • An Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's The Defence of Poesy

    de Liam Haydon ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The Defence of Poesy is the first major piece of literary criticism in English. Taking aim at classical authors who disparaged poetry, and contemporary critics who saw literature as a corrupting influence, Sidney foregrounds the moral force of poetry. Sidney considers the real life affects of poetry upon the reader arguing that the stories instill virtues like courage in the reader. He combines ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning

    From More to Shakespeare

    de Liam Haydon ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    What is a self? Greenblatt argues that the 16th century saw the awakening of modern self-consciousness, the ability to fashion an identity out of the culture and politics of one’s society. In a series of brilliant readings, Greenblatt shows how identity is constructed in the work of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and other Renaissance writers. A classic piece of literary criticism, and the origins ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture

    Series series The Macat Library
    Homi K. Bhabha’s 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and the nations across the globe that they colonized. Colonization was not just an economic, military or political ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down

    Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

    Series series The Macat Library
    Few works of history have succeeded so completely in forcing their readers to take a fresh look at the evidence as Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down – and that achievement is rooted firmly in Hill's exceptional problem-solving skills.Traditional interpretations of the English Civil War concentrated heavily on a top-down analysis of the doings of king and parliament. Hill looked at ... Leer más

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  • A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance

    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, covering the period from 1450 to 1650, explores evidence of the possibilities for disability that existed in the European Renaissance, observable in the literary and medicinal texts, and the family, ... Leer más

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  • Corporate Culture

    National and Transnational Corporations in Seventeenth-Century Literature

    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
    The corporation – an immortal collective bound to act for the common good – was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications. This work combines corporate history with literary analysis to demonstrate how corporations, and the literature they engendered, shaped ideas of the public sphere, trust, the morality of trade and ... Leer más

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