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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; Thomas Browne, Sir; Thomas Browne, Sir; William Shakespeare; Thomas Browne; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; Thomas Browne, Sir; Thomas Browne; Thomas (Philosoph Browne; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Howard Marchitello |
ISBN: | 0521580250 9780521580250 9780521036863 0521036860 |
OCLC Number: | 36023991 |
Description: | xiv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: narrationalities -- Shakespeare's Othello and Vesalius's Fabrica: anatomy, gender, and the narrative production of meaning -- (Dis)embodied letters and The merchant of Venice: writing, editing, history -- Political maps: the production of cartography in early modern England -- Possessing the New World: historicism and the story of the anecdote -- Browne's skull. |
Series Title: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture, 20. |
Responsibility: | Howard Marchitello. |
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Abstract:
Howard Marchitello's 1997 study of narrative techniques in Renaissance discourse analyses imaginative conjunctions of literary texts with developments in scientific and technical writing. Marchitello uses a wide range of cultural documents to illustrate the importance of narrative in constructing the Renaissance understanding of time and identity.
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"The volume will be most productive for those already conversant with the nuances of theoretical problematizing." C. Baker, Choice "Howard Marchitello undertakes valuable work. He accomplishes his goals with great success." Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance "Howard Marchitello's Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England offers a valuable series of deconstructive readings on topics that have beccome significant to Renaissance studies in recent years: the materiality of texts, cartography, anatomy,historiograghy, and status of the historical artifact." Gretchen Schultz South Centeral Review Read more...
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