Forgetting in early modern English literature and culture : Lethe's legacies /
Opening up an area overlooked by Renaissance scholarship, this collection of essays historicizes and theorizes 'forgetting' in English literary texts.
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Edice: | Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture.
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=114875 |
Obsah:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: sites of forgetting in early modern English literature and culture; The decay of memory; Lethargic corporeality on and off the early modern stage; Pleasure's oblivion: displacements of generation in Spenser's Faerie Queene; Signs; Textual crudities in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica; Off the subject: early modern poets on rhyme, distraction, and forgetfulness; Narratives; Reassuring fratricide in 1 Henry IV.