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Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture examines the
historical, cultural, and epistemological underpinnings of lying
and deception in early modern England, including the political,
religious, aesthetic, and philosophical discourses that governed
the codes of lying and truth-telling from the sixteenth to the
early eighteenth centuries. The contributions to this collection
draw on a wide range of early modern English literature from
Shakespeare to Swift, and from travel writing to poetry, in order
to explore the extent to which plays, poems, and narrative texts in
this period were sites of negotiation, and, at times, of
ideological warfare between the moral imperative of truth-telling
and the expediency of telling lies. What were the cultural norms of
truthfulness and lying, and on what basis were they constructed?
What were the consequences when someone did not share the assumed
common project of truth-telling? And which forms of communication
were exempt from the pragmatic strictures on mendacious discourse?
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
European Journal of English Studies.
Fictional novelists and other author characters have been a staple
of novels and stories from the early nineteenth century onwards.
What is it that attracts authors to representing their own kind in
fiction? Author Fictions addresses this question from a theoretical
and historical perspective. Narrative representations of literary
authorship not only reflect the aesthetic convictions and social
conditions of their actual authors or their time; they also take an
active part in negotiating and shaping these conditions. The book
unfolds the history of such ‘author fictions’ in European and
North American texts since the early nineteenth century as a
literary history of literary authorship, ranging from the Victorian
bildungsroman to contemporary autofiction. It combines rhetorical
and sociological approaches to answer the question how literature
makes authors. Identifying ‘author fictions’ as narratives that
address the fragile material conditions of literary creation in the
actual and symbolic economies of production, Ingo Berensmeyer
explores how these texts elaborate and manipulate concepts and
models of authorship. This book will be relevant to English,
American and comparative literary studies and to anyone interested
in the topic of literary authorship.
Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture examines the
historical, cultural, and epistemological underpinnings of lying
and deception in early modern England, including the political,
religious, aesthetic, and philosophical discourses that governed
the codes of lying and truth-telling from the sixteenth to the
early eighteenth centuries. The contributions to this collection
draw on a wide range of early modern English literature from
Shakespeare to Swift, and from travel writing to poetry, in order
to explore the extent to which plays, poems, and narrative texts in
this period were sites of negotiation, and, at times, of
ideological warfare between the moral imperative of truth-telling
and the expediency of telling lies. What were the cultural norms of
truthfulness and lying, and on what basis were they constructed?
What were the consequences when someone did not share the assumed
common project of truth-telling? And which forms of communication
were exempt from the pragmatic strictures on mendacious discourse?
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
European Journal of English Studies.
This book explores the history of literature as a history of
changing media and modes of communication, from manuscript to
print, from the codex to the computer, and from paper to digital
platforms. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to
evolve, in sync with material forms and formats that engage our
senses in multiple ways. Because literary experiences are embedded
in, and enabled by, media, the book focuses on literature as a
changing combination of material and immaterial features. The
principal agents of this history are no longer genres, authors, and
texts but configurations of media and technologies. In telling the
story of these combinations from prehistory to the present, Ingo
Berensmeyer distinguishes between three successive dominants of
media usage that have shaped literary history: performance,
representation, and connection. Using English literature as a test
case for a long view of media history, this book combines an
unusual bird's eye view across periods with illuminating readings
of key texts. It will prove an invaluable resource for teaching and
for independent study in English or comparative literature and
media studies.
This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and
1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and
political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number
of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth
century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards
a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a
wide array of social practices and institutions, from poetry to
politics and from epistemology to civility.
This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and
1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and
political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number
of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth
century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards
a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a
wide array of social practices and institutions, from poetry to
politics and from epistemology to civility.
This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a
reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent
debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new
theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume
offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known
texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its
systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance
texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing,
science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and
patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing
to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond
Shakespeare.
Ingo Berensmeyer analyzes the functional and material conditions of
literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700. In a series of
case studies he demonstrates how experiences of contingency lead to
a fundamental realignment of literary effects. In the process, a
new cultural configuration emerges, affecting a wide array of
social practices and institutions from poetry to politics and from
epistemology to civility. The book thus offers a timely
reassessment of English neoclassicism, the much neglected period
between Shakespeare and the novel.
Seeber up to date! Von Beowulf und Shakespeare uber Defoe und
Dickens, Yeats, Eliot und Orwell bis zu Woolf, Pinter und Rushdie
umfasst der Band alle grossen Autorinnen und Autoren der englischen
Literatur. Die 5., stark uberarbeitete Auflage ruckt nun auch die
wichtigsten Werke des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts ins Rampenlicht.
Neue Inhalte zur Kinderliteratur und Kurzgeschichte, zum Krimi, zu
Fantasy und Science Fiction sowie Werk- und Autorenportrats
erganzen den Band. Fundiert zu Epochen, Stilrichtungen, Gattungen.
Mit Bildern, Marginalien und Sachregister eben ein lebendiges
Nachschlagewerk.
This Handbook surveys the state of the art in literary authorship
studies. Its 27 original contributions by eminent scholars offer a
multi-layered account of authorship as a defining element of
literature and culture. Covering a vast chronological range, Part I
considers the history of authorship from cuneiform writing to
contemporary digital publishing; it discusses authorship in ancient
Egypt, Greece, Rome, early Jewish cultures, medieval, Renaissance,
modern, postmodern and Chinese literature. The second part focuses
on the place of authorship in literary theory, and on challenges to
theorizing literary authorship, such as gender and sexuality,
postcolonial and indigenous contexts for writing. Finally, Part III
investigates practical perspectives on the topic, with a focus on
attribution, anonymity and pseudonymity, plagiarism and forgery,
copyright and literary property, censorship, publishing and
marketing and institutional contexts.
Die BeitrAge behandeln in systematischer und historischer Sicht
epistemologisch orientierte Fragen nach dem gesellschaftlichen und
kulturellen Standort von Theorie zwischen Wissenschaftskultur und
Kulturwissenschaft. Sie gehen dem Eindruck nach, demzufolge die
Ambivalenz theoretischer 'Passion' entweder eher zu
ereignistrAchtigen kulturellen Formen oder aber ins Abseits
theoretisch-organisatorischer Betriebsamkeit fA1/4hrt. Nicht nur in
den Geisteswissenschaften lAsst sich beobachten, dass
Theoriebildungsprozesse innerhalb einer vielfach unterschAtzten
Bandbreite von Denkstilen vonstatten gehen - zwischen Intuition und
Konstruktion. Diese Vor- und Nachrationalisierungen theoretischen
Denkens hat die bisherige Theoriegeschichte weitgehend unbeachtet
gelassen; auch fA1/4r diese Denkstil-Bandbreite steht der
Platzhalter 'kulturell'. Es sind mithin sowohl die
gesellschaftlich-institutionellen Einbindungsformen als auch die
mAglichen kulturellen Ressourcen von Theorie, denen die einzelnen
BeitrAge des Bandes paradigmatisch (u.a. Dilthey, ValA(c)ry,
Bachtin, Adorno, Luhmann, Feyerabend) nachgehen.
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