Archaeologies of English Renaissance LiteratureOUP Oxford, 22 feb 2007 - 244 pagina's This study draws on the theory and practice of archaeology to develop a new perspective on the literature of the Renaissance. Philip Schwyzer explores the fascination with images of excavation, exhumation, and ruin that runs through literary texts including Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, Donne's sermons and lyrics, and Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall. Miraculously preserved corpses, ruinedmonasteries, Egyptian mummies, and Yorick's skull all figure in this study of the early modern archaeological imagination. The pessimism of the period is summed up in the haunting motif of the beautiful corpse that, once touched, crumbles to dust.Archaeology and literary studies are themselves products of the Renaissance. Although the two disciplines have sometimes viewed one another as rivals, they share a unique and unsettling intimacy with the traces of past life - with the words the dead wrote, sang, or heard, with the objects they made, held, or lived within. Schwyzer argues that at the root of both forms of scholarship lies the forbidden desire to awaken (and speak with) the dead. However impossible or absurd this desire may be,it remains a fundamental source of both ethical responsibility and aesthetic pleasure. |
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Pagina 57
... abbey ( reputedly founded by King Offa in the eighth century ) a foundational status to which it could not otherwise lay claim.45 Henceforth , it will be the ' flore ' from which all future construction shall arise . The only thing left ...
... abbey ( reputedly founded by King Offa in the eighth century ) a foundational status to which it could not otherwise lay claim.45 Henceforth , it will be the ' flore ' from which all future construction shall arise . The only thing left ...
Pagina 103
... Abbey.62 Read in isolation - imagined , for instance , as an Elizabethan graffito scrawled on a mouldering abbey wall - the phrase ' Bare ruined choirs , where late the sweet birds sang ' speaks powerfully of traditionalist nostalgia ...
... Abbey.62 Read in isolation - imagined , for instance , as an Elizabethan graffito scrawled on a mouldering abbey wall - the phrase ' Bare ruined choirs , where late the sweet birds sang ' speaks powerfully of traditionalist nostalgia ...
Pagina 106
... abbey , bereft of pious choristers ) . Not only are both readings valid , but they are so intertwined that it is impossible to choose one over the other , to ' see ' the abbey without also catching a glimpse of grey branches . In the ...
... abbey , bereft of pious choristers ) . Not only are both readings valid , but they are so intertwined that it is impossible to choose one over the other , to ' see ' the abbey without also catching a glimpse of grey branches . In the ...
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Traces of the Dead | 17 |
Colonial Archaeology from | 36 |
Monastic Ruins in Elizabethan Poetry | 72 |
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