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Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity (Paperback)
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Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity (Paperback)
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Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates
notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary
texts of the late sixteenth century. It considers the reflections
of Renaissance English writers upon the problem of how linguistic
meaning is created in their work. The book achieves this
consideration by placing its Renaissance authors in the context of
the dominant conceptualisation of the thought-language relationship
in the Western tradition: namely, that of 'introspection'. In
taking this route, author James Harmer undertakes to provide a
comprehensive overview of the notion of 'introspection' from
classical times to the Renaissance, and demonstrates how complex
and even strange this notion is often seen to be by thinkers and
writers. Harmer also shows how poetry and literary discourse in
general stands at the centre of the conceptual consideration of
what linguistic thinking is. He then argues, through a range of
close readings of Renaissance texts, that writers of the
Shakespearean period increase the fragility of the notion of
'introspection' in such a way as to make the prospect of any
systematic theory of meaning seem extremely remote. Embracing and
exploring the possibility that thinking about meaning can only
occur in the context of extreme cognitive and psychological
limitation, these texts emerge as proponents of a human mind which
is remarkably free in its linguistic nature; an irresistible mode
of life unto itself. The final argumentative stratum of the book
explores the implications of this approach for understanding the
relationship between literary criticism, philosophy, and other
kinds of critical activity. Texts discussed at length include
Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and shorter poetry, George
Chapman's Ovids Banquet of Sence, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
and Hamlet, and John Donne's Elegies.
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