Futile Pleasures

Author : Corey McEleney
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823272672
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Futile Pleasures written by Corey McEleney and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the current conversation by returning to the literary culture of early modern England, a culture whose defensive posture toward literature rivals and shapes our own. During the Renaissance, poets justified the value of their work on the basis of the notion that the purpose of poetry is to please and instruct, that it must be both delightful and useful. At the same time, many of these writers faced the possibility that the pleasures of literature may be in conflict with the demand to be useful and valuable. Analyzing the rhetoric of pleasure and the pleasure of rhetoric in texts by William Shakespeare, Roger Ascham, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton, McEleney explores the ambivalence these writers display toward literature’s potential for useless, frivolous vanity. Tracing that ambivalence forward to the modern era, this book also shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for the redemptive utility of literature, Futile Pleasures both theorizes and performs the queer pleasures of futility. Without ever losing sight of the costs of those pleasures, McEleney argues that playing with futility may be one way of moving beyond the impasses that modern humanists, like their early modern counterparts, have always faced.

Author : Emily Shortslef
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192694774
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drama of Complaint written by Emily Shortslef and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama. Emily Shortslef makes two main arguments. One is that poetic forms of complaint—expressions of discontent and unhappiness—operate in and across the period's literary and nonliterary discourses as sites of thought about human flourishing, the subject of ethical inquiry. The other is that Shakespearean configurations of these ubiquitous forms in theatrical scenes of complaint model new ways of thinking about ethical subjectivity, or ways of desiring, acting, and living consonant with notions of the good life. The Drama of Complaint develops these interlocking arguments through five chapters that demonstrate the thinking materialized in and through five prolific forms of complaint (existential, judicial, spectral, female, and deathbed). Built around some of the most electrifying scenes in Shakespearean tragedy, each chapter is a case study that identifies and theorizes one of these forms of complaint; delineates a matrix of ethical thought that structures that form; and develops a new reading of a Shakespearean tragedy to which that form of complaint and those ethical questions are integral.

Author : Deborah Solomon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000828042
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poem and the Garden in Early Modern England written by Deborah Solomon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws attention to the pervasive artistic rivalry between Elizabethan poetry and gardens in order to illustrate the benefits of a trans-media approach to the literary culture of the period. In its blending of textual studies with discussions of specific historical patches of earth, The Poem and the Garden demonstrates how the fashions that drove poetic invention were as likely to be influenced by a popular print convention or a particular garden experience as they were by the formal genres of the classical poets. By moving beyond a strictly verbal approach in its analysis of creative imitation, this volume offers new ways of appreciating the kinds of comparative and competitive methods that shaped early modern poetics. Noting shared patterns—both conceptual and material—in these two areas not only helps explain the persistence of botanical metaphors in sixteenth-century books of poetry but also offers a new perspective on the types of contrastive illusions that distinguish the Elizabethan aesthetic. With its interdisciplinary approach, The Poem and the Garden is of interest to all students and scholars who study early modern poetics, book history, and garden studies.

Author : Christopher D'Addario
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526127938
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texts and readers in the Age of Marvell written by Christopher D'Addario and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments.

Author : John Bascom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Mind written by John Bascom and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Bascom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Principles of Psychology written by John Bascom and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Rydelnik
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802490182
Total Pages : 4023 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moody Bible Commentary written by Michael Rydelnik and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 4023 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD! Now you can study the Bible with the faculty of the Moody Bible Institute! Imagine having a team of 30 Moody Bible Institute professors helping you study the Bible. Now you can with this in-depth, user-friendly, one-volume commentary. General editors Michael Rydelnik and Michael Vanlaningham have led a team of contributors whose academic training, practical church experience, and teaching competency make this commentary excellent for anyone who needs help understanding the Scriptures. This comprehensive and reliable reference work should be the first place Sunday school teachers, Bible study leaders, missionaries, and pastors turn to for biblical insight. Scripture being commented on is shown in bold print for easy reference, and maps and charts provide visual aids for learning. Additional study helps include bibliographies for further reading and a subject and Scripture index. The Moody Bible Commentary is an all-in-one Bible study resource that will help you better understand and apply God's written revelation to all of life.

Author : William Temple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fellowship with God written by William Temple and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher L. Webber
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0898697417
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Vigils written by Christopher L. Webber and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This useful book falls in the category of resources for structuring liturgies to fit local occasions. In addition to seven complete vigil services inspired by the ancient monastic discipline of nighttime prayer and meditation, there are new models such as "A Vigil in the Presence of God" or "A Vigil for Peace and Justice". Ample notes throughout explain the history of vigils and offer advice for planning small private and large public vigils.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National and English Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: