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Intricate Movements - Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser (Hardcover)
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Intricate Movements - Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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Renaissance humanism takes as one of its subjects for inquiry the
category of the human itself. As Intricate Movements: Experimental
Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser shows, late
sixteenth-century English poets found some remarkably radical ways
to interrogate and redefine the status of humans. The recent vogue
for posthumanist theory encourages a view of non-human objects and
animals in Renaissance literature as pathways to essentially
anti-humanist thought. On the contrary, this book argues that
Sidney, Spenser, and their contemporaries employ animals, earth,
buildings, and fictions as analogies employed toward a better
understanding of what makes humans a special category, both
ontologically and ethically. Horses and riders are studied by
Sidney as a way to understand readers and writers; the 1580 Dover
Straits Earthquake provides Spenser and Gabriel Harvey an
opportunity to explore human emotion; liturgical spaces are
represented by Sidney and Spenser in order to reassess human
community; and fictional persons are interrogated by Spenser as
models for human interpersonal epistemology. This volume seeks to
return critical assessments of the period's engagement with the
non-human back to human concerns. Focusing on several early modern
analogies between human and non-human entities, Intricate Movements
argues Sidney's and Spenser's thinking about the human is both
radically experimental and, ultimately, humane.
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