Fault Lines and Controversies in the Study of Seventeenth-century English LiteratureClaude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth Written by various experts in the field, this volume of thirteen original essays explores some of the most significant theoretical and practical fault lines and controversies in seventeenth-century English literature. The turn into the twenty-first century is an appropriate time to take stock of the state of the field, and, as part of that stocktaking, the need arises to assess both where literary study of the early modern period has been and where it might desirably go. Hence, many of the essays in this collection look both backward and forward. They chart the changes in the field over the past half century, while also looking forward to more change in the future. |
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Page 20
... true understanding over mere reading, but its very need to do so can suggest that understanding may be an illusion and that only “mere read- ings” are possible after all. Language reduced to writing (a deconstructor might say) is ...
... true understanding over mere reading, but its very need to do so can suggest that understanding may be an illusion and that only “mere read- ings” are possible after all. Language reduced to writing (a deconstructor might say) is ...
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... true empiricists , “ knowledge itself is power . " Although Bacon's claim seems to make both himself and his Classic Age counterparts the obvious targets of this kind of critique , it does little justice to the actual context of his ...
... true empiricists , “ knowledge itself is power . " Although Bacon's claim seems to make both himself and his Classic Age counterparts the obvious targets of this kind of critique , it does little justice to the actual context of his ...
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... True, modernized schemas of grammar and logic began to appear at a much accelerated pace throughout the seventeenth century, but these efforts were as often rooted in earlier Ramist or later Cartesian schemas as in Baconian method. And ...
... True, modernized schemas of grammar and logic began to appear at a much accelerated pace throughout the seventeenth century, but these efforts were as often rooted in earlier Ramist or later Cartesian schemas as in Baconian method. And ...
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... true”—is contained in one of Bacon's most deceptively simple but actually profound aphorisms: “Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.”24 This statement is contained in the third aphorism of New Organon ; or , True Directions Concerning.
... true”—is contained in one of Bacon's most deceptively simple but actually profound aphorisms: “Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.”24 This statement is contained in the third aphorism of New Organon ; or , True Directions Concerning.
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... True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature , which initially seems to endorse a synthesis of knowledge and pow- er similar to the one Horkheimer and Adorno blame for the subjugation of the world : “ Human knowledge and ...
... True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature , which initially seems to endorse a synthesis of knowledge and pow- er similar to the one Horkheimer and Adorno blame for the subjugation of the world : “ Human knowledge and ...
Contents
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Dennis Flynn | 50 |
Tobias Gregory | 73 |
Elizabeth Sauer | 88 |
Kate Narveson | 111 |
Jeffrey Johnson | 130 |
Critical Directions in the Study of Early Modern Sermons | 140 |
Sharon Cadman Seelig | 156 |
Joan Faust | 170 |
Cristina Malcolmson | 187 |
William Shullenberger | 204 |
Notes on Contributors | 227 |
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