TY  - GEN
T1  - Trials of authorship : anterior forms and poetic reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare
T2  - New historicism ;
A1  - Crewe, Jonathan V.
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1990
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1445865984
AB  - For more than a decade, the English Renaissance has been the scene of trial for the critical methodologies of deconstruction, feminism, new historicism, psychoanalytic post-structuralism and cultural studies. Jonathan Crewe argues that the commitment in the prevailing criticism to innovation, transgression, and radical change has increasingly obscured some powerfully conservative elements both in Renaissance culture and in these critical discourses themselves. In a reading of the poets Wyatt, Surrey, and Gascoigne, and of the biographies of Thomas More and Cardinal Wolsey, Crewe focuses on the relatively stable poetic and cultural forms operative in the Renaissance. He argues that these established forms, which shape poetic composition, social interaction, and individual identity, are subject to only limited reconstruction by English authors in the sixteenth century. They both facilitate and limit literary and social expression and result in more sharply conflicted literary production than contemporary critics have been willing to acknowledge. Crewe concentrates on authors whose canonical status is somewhat precarious and intentionally shifts the emphasis away from the Elizabethan period and toward that of Henry VIII. Trials of Authorship redraws the existing picture of the English Renaissance in the sixteenth century.
OP  - 196
CN  - PR421 .C74 1990eb
SN  - 9780520378780
SN  - 0520378784
SN  - 0520066936
SN  - 9780520066939
KW  - English literature : Early modern, 1500-1700 : History and criticism.
KW  - Historicism in literature.
KW  - Literary form : History : 16th century.
KW  - Literary form : History : 17th century.
KW  - Authorship.
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Historicisme dans la littérature.
KW  - Genres littéraires : Histoire : 16e siècle.
KW  - Genres littéraires : Histoire : 17e siècle.
KW  - Art d'écrire.
KW  - authorship.
KW  - English literature : Early modern
KW  - Historicism in literature
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Literarische Form
KW  - Englisch.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -