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The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings
of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call
comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary
hierarchy of theory over literature, the book takes the novel
approach of consulting major Renaissance writers about the values
at work in postmodern representations of early modern culture. As
criticism seeks new directions and takes new forms, insufficient
attention has been paid to the literary and philosophical values
won and lost in the exchanges. One result is that the way we
understand the logical connections, the literary textures, and the
philosophical impulses that make up the literature of writers like
Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton has fundamentally changed.
Examining theoretical debates now in light of polemical
controversies then, the book goes beyond earlier studies in that it
systematically examines the effects of these newer critical
approaches across their materialist, historicist, deconstructive,
and psychoanalytic manifestations. Bringing gravity and focus to
this question of critical continuities and discontinuities, each
chapter counterposes one major Renaissance voice with a postmodern
one to probe these issues and with them the value of the cultural
past. As voices on both sides of the historical divide illuminate
key differences between the Renaissance and the Postmodern, a
critical model emerges from the book to re-engage this period's
humane literature in a contemporary context with intellectual rigor
and a renewed sense of cultural enrichment.
The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings
of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call
comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary
hierarchy of theory over literature, the book takes the novel
approach of consulting major Renaissance writers about the values
at work in postmodern representations of early modern culture. As
criticism seeks new directions and takes new forms, insufficient
attention has been paid to the literary and philosophical values
won and lost in the exchanges. One result is that the way we
understand the logical connections, the literary textures, and the
philosophical impulses that make up the literature of writers like
Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton has fundamentally changed.
Examining theoretical debates now in light of polemical
controversies then, the book goes beyond earlier studies in that it
systematically examines the effects of these newer critical
approaches across their materialist, historicist, deconstructive,
and psychoanalytic manifestations. Bringing gravity and focus to
this question of critical continuities and discontinuities, each
chapter counterposes one major Renaissance voice with a postmodern
one to probe these issues and with them the value of the cultural
past. As voices on both sides of the historical divide illuminate
key differences between the Renaissance and the Postmodern, a
critical model emerges from the book to re-engage this period's
humane literature in a contemporary context with intellectual rigor
and a renewed sense of cultural enrichment.
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Reflections on Medicine (Paperback, New)
Sherwin B Nuland, Robert U. Massey; Edited by University Press of New England, Martin Duke
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From over 300 essays the late Dr. Massey wrote between 1973 and
2005 for his popular monthly columns in Connecticut Medicine, the
state medical journal, the seventy in this collection best
demonstrate his breadth of scholarship, concerns about medicine,
and skills as a writer and teacher. For ease of reading, the
articles are organized into eleven sections by topic, such as the
care of patients, medical education, growing old, death and dying,
technology, ethics and morality, and the history of medicine. As
timely as they are important, these essays lend themselves to
discussions in medical schools and other teaching institutions,
address issues physicians in practice face almost daily, and
provide a touchstone for all citizens concerned about the practice
of humanistic medicine today.
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