Resistant structures : particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts / Richard Strier.
Material type: TextSeries: New historicism ; 34.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780520919211
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- 0585261644
- 9780585261645
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- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
- Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Literature and history -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Particularity (Aesthetics)
- Radicalism in literature
- Renaissance -- England
- Littérature anglaise -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc
- Littérature et histoire -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Littérature et histoire -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Particularité (Esthétique)
- Radicalisme dans la littérature
- Renaissance -- Angleterre
- Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature and history
- Particularity (Aesthetics)
- Radicalism in literature
- Renaissance
- England
- 1500-1700
- 820.9/003 20
- PR428.H57 .S77 1995eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Against schemes: "Tradition" ; "Self consumption" ; "Theory" ; "New historicism" -- pt. 2. Against received ideas: Impossible worldliness : "devout humanism" ; Appendix : Impossible transcendence ; Impossible radicalism I : Donne and freedom of conscience ; Impossible radicalism II : Shakespeare and disobedience ; Impossible radicalism and impossible value : Nahum Tate's King Lear.
Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the "resistant structures" of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts must - or cannot - say or do. The first part of the book, "Against Schemes," demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Fish, among others, how both historicist and purely theoretical approaches can equally produce distortion of particulars. The second part, "Against Received Ideas," shows how a variety of texts (by Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and others) have been seen through the lenses of fixed, mainly conservative ideas in ways that have obscured their actual, surprising, and sometimes surprisingly radical content.
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