Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare
Regular price
€198.40
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=William E. Engel
Ars Memorativa
Art Of Memory
arts
Author_William E. Engel
bart
Bart Van Es
Book III
Briton Moniments
Canker Holes
Category=DDA
Category=DS
Category=DSA
Category=DSB
Category=NHAH
Category=NHD
Chiastic Designs
Christopher Ivic
Circular Regression
david
David Poems
Double Sestina
Echo Poem
Englische Sprache Und Literatur
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_poetry
faerie
Faerie Lond
Faerie Queene
Famous Antique History
Goodly Cabinet
Iust Memory
Jailer's Daughter
Jailer’s Daughter
King JAMES
memory
Myn Auctour
noble
Noble Kinsmen
poems
Quaestiones Disputatae De Veritate
queene
Sidney's Arcadia
Sidney’s Arcadia
structure
van
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754666363
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Paying special attention to Sidney's Arcadia, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's romances, this study engages in sustained examination of chiasmus in early modern English literature. The author's approach leads to the recovery of hidden designs which are shown to animate important works of literature; along the way Engel offers fresh and more comprehensive interpretations of seemingly shopworn conventions such as memento mori conceits, echo poems, and the staging of deus ex machina. The study, grounded in the philosophy of symbolic forms (following Ernst Cassirer), will be a valuable resource for readers interested in intellectual history and symbol theory, classical mythology and Renaissance iconography. Chiastic Designs affords a glimpse into the transformative power of allegory during the English Renaissance by addressing patterns that were part and parcel of early modern "mnemonic culture."
William E. Engel is Associate Professor of English at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, USA.
