Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare
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allegorical narrative analysis
Ars Memorativa
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Chiastic Design
Circular Regression
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David Poems
Double Sestina
early modern symbolism
Englische Sprache Und Literatur
Epic Underworlds
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Faerie Lond
Faerie Queene
Famous Antique History
Goodly Cabinet
Hero's Journey
Hero’s Journey
intellectual history England
Iust Memory
Jailer's Daughter
Jailer’s Daughter
King JAMES
memory
mnemonic culture
Myn Auctour
noble
Noble Kinsmen
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Quaestiones Disputatae De Veritate
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Sidney's Arcadia
Sidney’s Arcadia
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- ISBN 9781138262034
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
