Renaissance Fantasies: The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern FictionKent State University Press, 1999 - Počet stran: 214 Renaissance Fantasies is the first full-length study to explore why a number of early modern writers put their masculine literary authority at risk by writing from the perspective of femininity and effeminacy. Prendergast argues that fictions like Boccaccio's Decameron, Etienne Pasquier's Monophile, Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, and Shakespeare's As You Like It promote an alternative to the dominate, patriarchal aesthetics by celebrating unruly female and effeminate male bodies. She establishes how, during the early modern period, writers metaphorically associated didactic literature (like the epic) with masculinity, and fantastical or pleasurable literature (like Lyric or drama) with femininity or effeminacy. |
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... rhetoric . " The distinctions between eikastike and phantastike were crucial to later poets and critics , for Plato characterized fantastical images and writings as deceitful , seduc- tive , and hence , immoral ( 234c ) . If Plato's ...
... rhetoric . " The distinctions between eikastike and phantastike were crucial to later poets and critics , for Plato characterized fantastical images and writings as deceitful , seduc- tive , and hence , immoral ( 234c ) . If Plato's ...
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... rhetoric of feminized fantasy . This pattern of reading authoritative texts against themselves structures the chapters that follow , each of which focuses on an authoritative Italian or Italianate text— such as The Courtier , the Rime ...
... rhetoric of feminized fantasy . This pattern of reading authoritative texts against themselves structures the chapters that follow , each of which focuses on an authoritative Italian or Italianate text— such as The Courtier , the Rime ...
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... rhetoric over the female body part it describes . This transformation of discrete female body parts into artistic prose is , Firen- zuola tells us , inspired by the legendary Greek painter Zeuxis , who " chose the five most elegant ...
... rhetoric over the female body part it describes . This transformation of discrete female body parts into artistic prose is , Firen- zuola tells us , inspired by the legendary Greek painter Zeuxis , who " chose the five most elegant ...
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... rhetoric than allow themselves to be transformed into art objects . At the same time , Verdespina's remarks point to the ultimate absurdity of trying to piece together an ideal woman out of diverse fragments : the discrete parts are ...
... rhetoric than allow themselves to be transformed into art objects . At the same time , Verdespina's remarks point to the ultimate absurdity of trying to piece together an ideal woman out of diverse fragments : the discrete parts are ...
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... suggested by fantasy and seduction — implications that are more clearly foregrounded in the abusive rhetoric of Nashe and Anger . NASHE , ZEUXIS , AND UNRULY WOMEN The Anatomie of RENAISSANCE Aesthetics of EFFEMINACY 25.
... suggested by fantasy and seduction — implications that are more clearly foregrounded in the abusive rhetoric of Nashe and Anger . NASHE , ZEUXIS , AND UNRULY WOMEN The Anatomie of RENAISSANCE Aesthetics of EFFEMINACY 25.
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Effeminacy and the Anxiety of Originality Astrophil and Stella and the Rime Sparse | 63 |
Prose Femininity and the Prodigal Triangle in the Decameron and The Old Arcadia | 82 |
The Truest Poetry Gender Genre and Class in As You Like It and A Defence of Poetry | 113 |
Illusions of Originality | 128 |
Appendix | 133 |
Notes | 137 |
Bibliography | 181 |
Index | 199 |
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Strana 7 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in nature...
Strana 11 - And now that an overfaint quietness should seem to strew the house for poets, they are almost in as good reputation as the mountebanks at Venice.
Strana 66 - STELLA oft sees the verie face of wo Painted in my beclowded stormie face: But cannot skill to pitie my disgrace, Not though thereof the cause...
Strana 10 - Sweet Poesy, that hath anciently had kings, emperors, senators, great captains, such as, besides a thousand others, David, Adrian. Sophocles, Germanicus, not only to favour poets, but to be poets; and of our nearer times can present for her patrons a Robert, king of Sicily, the great King Francis of France, King James of Scotland; such cardinals as Bembus and Bibbiena...
Strana 8 - ... the meaner sort of painters, who counterfeit only such faces as are set before them, and the more excellent, who, having no law but wit, bestow that in colours upon you which is fittest for the eye to see...
Strana 59 - LOVING in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain,— Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, — I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others...
Strana 13 - ... us great occasion, being indeed capable of any excellent exercising of it. I know, some will say it is a mingled language. And why not so much the better, taking the best of both the other? Another will say it wanteth grammar.
Strana 58 - Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature ; The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Strana 125 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Strana 168 - ... so true a lover as Theagenes, so constant a friend as Pylades, so valiant a man as Orlando, so right a prince as Xenophon's Cyrus, so excellent a man every way as Virgil's Aeneas.