Discontinuities: New Essays on Renaissance Literature and Criticism (Theory/Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802004369 ISBN 13: 9780802004369

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1998

Synopsis

Over the last two decades there has been a perceived paradigm shift in the study of English Renaissance literature. Scholarly attention has moved from the individual to the social as the agent of literary production and the principal site of discussion. Genius is now far less likely to be invoked than discourse, culture, and ideology. The intellectual shift, routinely associated both with new historicism and cultural materialism, has been neither uncontested nor simple and uniform. The essays in the present volume set out to identify, examine, and respond to these discontinuities , and in so doing attest to the extraordinary vitality of contemporary Renaissance studies.

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About the Author

VIVIANA COMENSOLI is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. She is co-editor of Discontinuities: New Essays on Renaissance Literature and Criticisms (UTP 1998). PAUL STEVENS is an associate professor in the Department of English at Queen's University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802004369
• ISBN 13: 9780802004369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Comensoli Viviana, Stevens Paul