Tradition and Subversion in Renaissance Literature: Studies in Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and DonneDuquesne University Press, 2007 - 258 páginas Deconstructionist critics have argued that literary works contain conflicting or contradictory meanings, thus creating an aporia, or impasse, that prevents readers from interpreting the work. Here, however, Murray Roston offers detailed and essentially new analyses of works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and Donne, arguing that the seemingly contradictory presence of traditional and subversive elements in their major works actually creates the source of much of their literary achievement. Chapters explore The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Faerie Queene, Volpone, and the Meditations of John Donne, highlighting the creative tension between centripetal and centrifugal factors (borrowing Bakhtin's terms). As Roston demonstrates, this tension exists in a variety of genres, including poetry, epic and drama, and even in religious prose which, he acknowledges, might be thought to be exempt from such inner conflict because of its doctrinal and theological focus. The tension between tradition and subversion, both linguistic and cultural, then, can be seen to produce not aporia in any negative sense, but a positive complexity of response from the audience, animating and profoundly enriching each work. In The Merchant of Venice, for example, Shakespeare merges the previously despised figure of the merchant with a Christ-like figure, brilliantly reasserting the Christian condemnation of profiteering while simultaneously advocating its seeming opposite, a validation of the burgeoning mercantile activity of the Renaissance. Tradition and Subversion in Renaissance Literary Studies is a thoughtful study, rich in both historical scholarship and in its survey of modern criticism. Even those who are quite familiar with the texts discussed here will find Roston's focus on the tension between maintaining the expectations of the culture and pulling toward new ideas an illuminating way to freshly consider these literary works. |
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... Jacques Derrida too proclaims that such conflicts of text and subtext in effect frustrate the pos- sibility of a coherent reading , admitting that the result is nihilistic : Perhaps you will think that I am leading you toward a purely ...
... Jacques Derrida too proclaims that such conflicts of text and subtext in effect frustrate the pos- sibility of a coherent reading , admitting that the result is nihilistic : Perhaps you will think that I am leading you toward a purely ...
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... Jacques Derrida applied to the concept of death the de- constructionist principles he had adopted for literary texts , arguing , with frequent reference to Heidegger , that the idea of death was in itself an impossibility . Just as a ...
... Jacques Derrida applied to the concept of death the de- constructionist principles he had adopted for literary texts , arguing , with frequent reference to Heidegger , that the idea of death was in itself an impossibility . Just as a ...
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... Jacques Derrida , Aporias , trans . Thomas Dutoit ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1993 ) , 12 , 22 . 75. J. Hillis Miller , " The Critic as Host , " Deconstruction and Criticism ( New York : Seabury Press , 1979 ) . NOTES TO ...
... Jacques Derrida , Aporias , trans . Thomas Dutoit ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1993 ) , 12 , 22 . 75. J. Hillis Miller , " The Critic as Host , " Deconstruction and Criticism ( New York : Seabury Press , 1979 ) . NOTES TO ...
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ONE Sacred and Secular in The Merchant | 1 |
Two Hamlet and the Stoic | 39 |
THREE Spenser and the Pagan Gods | 87 |
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