Guilty Creatures : Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship: Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of AuthorshipIn this innovative and learned study, Dennis Kezar examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period, Kezar explores the ethical self-consciousness and accountability that attend literary killing, paying particular attention to the ways in which this reflection indicates the poet's understanding of his audience. Among the many poems through which Kezar explores the concept of authorial guilt elicited by violent representation are Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the multi-authored Witch of Edmonton, and Milton's Samson Agonistes. |
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... representation " not merely deficient but capable of destroying its subjects . Even Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie — which exculpates the poet by removing literature from history and locating it in a harmless imaginative realm ...
... representation " not merely deficient but capable of destroying its subjects . Even Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie — which exculpates the poet by removing literature from history and locating it in a harmless imaginative realm ...
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... representation and reception . When Renaissance poems perform this " ethic and politic consideration " themselves , they offer us impor- tant evidence of literature's implication in the violence of representation as con- stituted by ...
... representation and reception . When Renaissance poems perform this " ethic and politic consideration " themselves , they offer us impor- tant evidence of literature's implication in the violence of representation as con- stituted by ...
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... representation and commu- nication . But in this study , such historical sympathy is valid only to the extent that it helps us take seriously the consequence imagined for early modern poetry by the poets writing it . Prompting this ...
... representation and commu- nication . But in this study , such historical sympathy is valid only to the extent that it helps us take seriously the consequence imagined for early modern poetry by the poets writing it . Prompting this ...
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... representation— approaches a familiar paradigm from a different angle . I am indebted through- out this study to Stephen Greenblatt , who has influentially labeled and explored the Renaissance rituals for such violence : " Self ...
... representation— approaches a familiar paradigm from a different angle . I am indebted through- out this study to Stephen Greenblatt , who has influentially labeled and explored the Renaissance rituals for such violence : " Self ...
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Contents
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John Skeltons Precedent | 17 |
Two Spenser and the Poetics of Indiscretion | 50 |
THREE The Properties of Shakespeares Globe | 86 |
FOUR The Witch of Edmonton and the Guilt of Possession | 114 |
SIX Guilt and the Constitution of Authorship in Henry V | 172 |
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