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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... textual history ; whereas texts perpetuate the biases of an elite minority , the material traces studied by archaeology can reveal the realities of life as experienced by the mass of the population.14 The majority of literary scholars ...
... textual history ; whereas texts perpetuate the biases of an elite minority , the material traces studied by archaeology can reveal the realities of life as experienced by the mass of the population.14 The majority of literary scholars ...
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... textual . Archaeologists and literary scholars are akin in devoting their professional lives to traces of the worlds we have lost , and the problems that at once complicate and motivate their work are strikingly similar . ' Objectivity ...
... textual . Archaeologists and literary scholars are akin in devoting their professional lives to traces of the worlds we have lost , and the problems that at once complicate and motivate their work are strikingly similar . ' Objectivity ...
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... textual bias — the makers of paper and ink deserve praise , but it is the author who achieves immortality thanks to their creations . ) For Petrarch , Machiavelli , and Huygens alike , the voices of the dead correspond in an ...
... textual bias — the makers of paper and ink deserve praise , but it is the author who achieves immortality thanks to their creations . ) For Petrarch , Machiavelli , and Huygens alike , the voices of the dead correspond in an ...
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Traces of the Dead | 17 |
Colonial Archaeology from | 36 |
Monastic Ruins in Elizabethan Poetry | 72 |
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