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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... units such as the scene, slipped out of the dialectical equation. This book takes as its point of departure the deceptively obvious premiss that the English drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries must be considered ...
... units such as the scene, slipped out of the dialectical equation. This book takes as its point of departure the deceptively obvious premiss that the English drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries must be considered ...
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... unit that 'marks', both literally and figuratively, the dialectical moment where matter sublates into form and form collapses into matter, and, at the same time, providing the foundation, along with other geometrical units such as the ...
... unit that 'marks', both literally and figuratively, the dialectical moment where matter sublates into form and form collapses into matter, and, at the same time, providing the foundation, along with other geometrical units such as the ...
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... units in a grand imaginative equation. And if the conventions of the theatre require a defence or an apology, it is because the peculiar mathematical logic of stage representation divides at the same time that it multiplies: the risk of ...
... units in a grand imaginative equation. And if the conventions of the theatre require a defence or an apology, it is because the peculiar mathematical logic of stage representation divides at the same time that it multiplies: the risk of ...
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... units.12 In the end, Jonson and Dekker each attempting to come to terms with two distinct notions of 'form' that were characteristic of early-modern poets and practitioners, respectively: a qualitative, verbal, and rhetorical notion ...
... units.12 In the end, Jonson and Dekker each attempting to come to terms with two distinct notions of 'form' that were characteristic of early-modern poets and practitioners, respectively: a qualitative, verbal, and rhetorical notion ...
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... units, and interpretative responses are required. And of course the 'form' of the page also exerts itself in other areas of early-modern culture: the practical geometrical manuals I consider in Chapter 2, for instance, depend on several ...
... units, and interpretative responses are required. And of course the 'form' of the page also exerts itself in other areas of early-modern culture: the practical geometrical manuals I consider in Chapter 2, for instance, depend on several ...
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