Renaissance man : essays on literature and culture for Anthony W. Johnson / edited by Tommi Alho, Jason Finch, Roger D. Sell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing Anthony W. Johnson / Tommi Alho, Jason Finch and Roger -- Ben Jonson's Epigram 101, "Inviting a friend to supper" : literary pleasures immediately tasted / Roger D. Sell -- Passing the test with polymachaeroplacides : seventeenth-century assessment criteria for George Wilde's first play, Eumorphus sive Cupido Adultus (1635) / Elizabeth Sandis -- Vir bonus, dicendi peritus : learning rhetoric in a restoration grammar school / Tommi Alho -- John Sheffield's Essay upon poetry : the use of literature for educational purposes in the long eighteenth century / Adam Borch -- "Thou art the unanswered question" : on the imagology of the riddle of the Sphinx / Bo Pettersson -- "Sohrab and Rustum" : Matthew Arnold's spectacle / Juha-Pekka Alarauhio -- The many-sided comedy of George Gissing's The nether world / Jason Finch -- "River man" and "Pink moon" : Nick Drake, his image world, and the iconosphere / Bent Sørensen -- The perfection of Morten Søkilde's extended-form poetry / Claus Madsen -- iPhone cinema and Tangerine : imagology, actor-network theory, and the idea of trans- / Steen Ledet Christiansen -- Delay : an interlude, an abeyance, a ghost story / Stuart McWilliams.

"Here friends of Anthony W. Johnson honour him as a re-embodiment of the polymathic artist-scholar figure once observable in Ben Jonson, on whom he has done some of his most distinctive work. Part I of the book reflects his strong grounding in English literature and culture of the seventeenth century, with essays, not only on Ben Jonson, but also on university drama, on grammar school drama, and on humanist literary taste. Part II responds to his pioneering flights of culture-imagological time-travel to other periods, with essays on riddles through the ages, on Matthew Arnold's doubts about Homeric pictorialism, and on anciently comic elements in George Gissing's urban fiction. Part III celebrates his importance, both as scholar and artist, for the present day, with essays extending imagological analysis to the singer Nick Drake, to the avant-garde Danish poet Morten Søkilde, and to Sean S. Baker's film Tangerine, plus a climactic celebration of Johnson's own performances on solo violin and guitar as augmented by self-recording"-- Provided by publisher.

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