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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Grossman, Marshall. Story of all things. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)606991823 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marshall Grossman |
| ISBN: | 0822321017 9780822321019 0822321173 9780822321170 |
| OCLC Number: | 37783090 |
| Description: | xxiii, 347 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Literary Forms and Historical Consciousness in Renaissance Poetry -- 2. The Subject of Narrative and the Rhetoric of the Self -- 3. Augustine and the Rhetoric of the Christian Ego -- 4. Spenser and the Metonymies of Virtue: A Case of History -- 5. Refiguring the Remains of the World in Donne's Anniversaries: Absolute Monuments to Absolute Knowledge -- 6. Authoring the Boundary: Allegory, Irony, and the Rebus in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House -- 7. Experience, Negation, and the Genders of Time: Milton and the Question of Woman -- Epilogue: The Hyphen in the Mouth of Modernity. |
| Series Title: | Post-contemporary interventions. |
| Responsibility: | Marshall Grossman. |
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""The Story of All Things" makes a major contribution to the literary history of the English Renaissance and to the theory of modernity and the modern subject. Grossman takes up what are surely the most compelling and widely discussed questions in literary studies today. . . with an elegance that makes the book as beautiful as it is important, as pleasurable to read as it is necessary to be read."--David Lee Miller, University of Kentucky Read more...
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- English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- Self in literature.
- Literature and history -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Narrative poetry, English -- History and criticism.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 17th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 16th century.
- Subjectivity in literature.
- Renaissance -- England.
- Renaissance.
- Subjectiviteit.
- Engels.
- Gedichten.
- Versdichtung.
- Geschichte 1580-1660.
- Lyrik.
- Versepik.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Englisch.
