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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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