The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630OUP Oxford, 23. 2. 2006 - Počet stran: 344 Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 examines the history of English dramatic form and its relationship to the mathematics, technology, and early scientific thought during the Renaissance period. The book demonstrates how practical modes of thinking that were typical of the sixteenth century resulted in new genres of plays and a new vocabulary for problems of poetic representation. In the epistemological moment the book recovers, we find new ideas about form and language that would become central to Renaissance literary discourse; in this same moment, too, we find new ways of thinking about the relationship between theory and practice that are typical of modernity, new attitudes towards spatial representation, and a new interest in both poetics and mathematics as distinctive ways of producing knowledge about the world. By emphasizing the importance of theatrical performance, the book engages with continuing debates over the cultural function of the early modern stage and with scholarship on the status of modern authorship. When we consider playwrights in relation to the theatre rather than the printed book, they appear less as 'authors' than as figures whose social position and epistemological presuppositions were very similar to the craftsmen, surveyors, and engineers who began to flourish during the sixteenth century and whose mathematical knowledge made them increasingly sought after by men of wealth and power. |
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... describe briefly here so as to clarify the arguments that follow and to indicate their relevance to scholars working in different historical periods, cultural contexts, disciplines, or media. In its broadest orientation, the book offers ...
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... describes to Fortunatus his collection of occult and mythological devices, from which he might choose in exchange for his magic purse the ball of gold that set all Troy on fire (2.1.44) a wheele of Titans carre, which dropt from heaven ...
... describes to Fortunatus his collection of occult and mythological devices, from which he might choose in exchange for his magic purse the ball of gold that set all Troy on fire (2.1.44) a wheele of Titans carre, which dropt from heaven ...
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... describe as 'literary' figures and whose names we may no longer recognize at all: John Dee, Thomas Harriot, John Blagrave, and Leonard Digges, those 'mathematical practitioners', as E. G. R. Taylor has called them, whose knowledge of ...
... describe as 'literary' figures and whose names we may no longer recognize at all: John Dee, Thomas Harriot, John Blagrave, and Leonard Digges, those 'mathematical practitioners', as E. G. R. Taylor has called them, whose knowledge of ...
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... describes a convergence between literary and scientific epistemologies in England, during a period when both fields were in a crucial moment of formation.8 If we examine the distinctive habits of reasoning that preceded modern ...
... describes a convergence between literary and scientific epistemologies in England, during a period when both fields were in a crucial moment of formation.8 If we examine the distinctive habits of reasoning that preceded modern ...
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... describe a specific intellectual formation characteristic of sixteenth-century England, a pre-scientific epistemology that arose out of a convergence between humanist habits of reasoning inherited from classical rhetoric, dialectic, and ...
... describe a specific intellectual formation characteristic of sixteenth-century England, a pre-scientific epistemology that arose out of a convergence between humanist habits of reasoning inherited from classical rhetoric, dialectic, and ...
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