Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry (Hardcover)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019

0198837518 / 9780198837510

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Hardcover. Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments or promises, but instead focus on the lovers' anticipated decline, and--quite stunningly given the Reformation context--humanity's relegation not to a Christian afterlife but to a Marvellian 'desert of vastEternity.' In this way, a poetic trope whose classical form was an expression of pragmatic Epicureanism became, during the religious upheaval of the Reformation, an unlikely but effective vehicle forarticulating religious doubt. Its ambitions were thus largely philosophical, and came to incorporate investigations into the nature of matter, time, and poetic representation. Renaissance seduction poets invited their auditors to participate in a dangerous intellectual game, one whose primary interest was expanding the limits of knowledge. The book theorizes how Renaissance lyric's own fragile relationship to materiality and time, and its self-conscious relationship to making, positioned it tograpple with these 'impossible' metaphysical and representational problems. Although attentive to poetics, the book also challenges the commonplace view that the erotic invitation is exclusively alyrical mode. Carpe diem's revival in post-Reformation Europe portends its radicalization, as debates between man and maid are dramatized in disputes between abstractions like chastity and material facts like death. Offered here is thus a theoretical reconsideration of the generic parameters and aspirations of the carpe diem trope, wherein questions about embodiment and knowledge are also investigations into the potentialities of literary form. Wendy Beth Hyman examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation in the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions focused on the lovers' anticipated decline, investigated the nature of matter, time, and poetic representation, and became a vehicle for articulating religious doubt. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry (Hardcover)
Autore
Wendy Beth Hyman
Editore
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Anno di pubblicazione
2019
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0198837518
ISBN 13
9780198837510

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