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Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts

  • Murray Roston and Murray Roston
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014

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Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts and the artistic works the insights such comparison offers.

Originally published in 1987.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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"Without question, this book is stimulating in its approach and subject matter, and I strongly recommend it for the libraries of interdisciplinarian and Renaissance enthusiasts and scholars."---Richard Studing, Seventeenth-Century News --- ". . . a model of scholarship and literary grace."---John Mulryan, Cithara

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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    INTRODUCTION

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  • EARLY RENAISSANCE
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    CHAPTER I. The Pilgrimage to Canterbury

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    CHAPTER 2. Hierarchy in the Mystery Plays

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  • HIGH RENAISSANCE
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    CHAPTER 3. The Ideal and the Real

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    CHAPTER 4. Spenser and the Pagan Gods

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    CHAPTER 5. A Kingdom for a Stage

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    CHAPTER 6. Shakespeare's Artistic Allegiance

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  • MANNERISM AND CLASSICISM
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    CHAPTER 7. Varieties of Seventeenth-Century Prose

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    CHAPTER 8. The World as Anagram: The Poetry of George Herbert

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    NOTES

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    INDEX

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Keywords for this book
Poetry; Mannerism; Literature; Renaissance art; Renaissance literature; High Renaissance; Renaissance; Religio Medici; Elizabethan literature; William Shakespeare; Baroque architecture; Verisimilitude (fiction); Shakespeare's plays; Renaissance humanism; Medieval poetry; Petrarch; Prose; Sir Thomas More (play); Medievalism; Metaphysical poets; Sandro Botticelli; El Greco; Ricardian (Richard III); Scholasticism; English poetry; English Renaissance; Medieval literature; Narrative; Gesta Romanorum; Counter-Reformation; Morality play; Albrecht Dürer; Cosimo de' Medici; King Lear; Magnificence (history of ideas); Allegory; Ut pictura poesis; Neoplatonism; Shakespearean tragedy; Titian; G. (novel); Critical Essays (Orwell); Hieronymus Bosch; Medieval art; Iconoclasm; John Donne; Travels (book); Sonnet 61; Goliard; Fairy tale; Sonnet; Literary criticism; Polonius; Archimago; Summa Theologica; Juvenal; Giulio Romano; Vitruvius; Epic poetry; S. (Dorst novel); Holy Sonnets; Grand style (rhetoric); Art; English art; Classical mythology; Contemptus mundi; Lorenzo de' Medici; The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy; Tintoretto; Illuminated manuscript
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