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The story of all things : writing the self in English Renaissance narrative poetry

Author:Marshall Grossman

Summary:Marshall Grossman analyzes the influence of major cultural developments, as well as significant events in the lives of Renaissance poets, to show how specific narratives characterize distinctive conceptions of the self in relation to historical action

Print Book, English, 1998

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: Duke University Press, Durham [N.C.], 1998

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions

Genre:Criticism, interpretation, etc

Physical Description:xxiii, 347 pages ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9780822321019, 9780822321170, 0822321017, 0822321173

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:37783090

Subjects:

18.05 English literature

Aufsatzsammlung

Criticism, interpretation, etc

English poetry Early modern

English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism

Geschichte 1580-1660

Literature and history

Literature and history England History 16th century

Literature and history England History 17th century

Literature and history Great Britain History 16th century

Literature and history Great Britain History 17th century

Littérature et histoire Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle

Littérature et histoire Angleterre Histoire 17e siècle

Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature

Narration (Rhetoric)

Narration (Rhetoric) History 16th century

Narration (Rhetoric) History 17th century

Narration Histoire 16e siècle

Narration Histoire 17e siècle

Narrative poetry, English

Narrative poetry, English History and criticism

Renaissance Angleterre

Renaissance England

Self in literature

Subjectivité dans la littérature

Subjectivity in literature

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Story of all things.

Grossman, Marshall.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

ix

(2)

Preface

xi

Part 1

3

(104)

1 Literary Forms and Historical Consciousness in Renaissance Poetry

3

(31)

2 The Subject of Narrative and the Rhetoric of the Self

34

(22)

3 Augustine and the Rhetoric of the Christian Ego

56

(51)

Part 2

107

(146)

4 Spenser and the Metonymies of Virtue: A Case of History

107

(47)

5 Refiguring the Remains of the World in Donne's Anniversaries: Absolute Monuments to Absolute Knowledge

154

(43)

6 Authoring the Boundary: Allegory, Irony, and the Rebus in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House"

197

(21)

7 Experience, Negation, and the Genders of Time: Milton and the Question of Woman

218

(35)

Epilogue: The Hyphen in the Mouth of Modernity

253

(18)

Notes

271

(66)

Index

337

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