Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750Drawing on a variety of disciplines and documents, Professor Agnew illuminates one of the most fascinating chapters in the formations of Anglo-American market culture. Worlds Apart traces the history of our concepts of the marketplace and the theatre and the ways in which these concepts are bound together. Focusing on Britain and America in the years 1550 to 1750, the book discusses the forms and conventions that structured both commerce and theatre. As marketing practice broke free of its traditional boundaries and restraints, it challenged longstanding popular assumptions about the constituents of value, the nature of identity, the signs of authenticity, and the limits of liability. New exchange relations bred new legal and commercial fictions to authorise them, but they also bred new doubts about the precise grounds upon which the self and its 'interests' were to be represented. Those same doubts, Professor Agnew shows, animated the theatre as well. As actors and playwrights shifted from ecclesiastical and civic drama to professional entertainments, they too devised authenticating fictions, fictions that effectively replicated the bewildering representational confusions of the new 'placeless market'. |
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... metaphors and tropes no longer seemed capable of expressing the labile qualities of money or the social relations that money mediated . The formless , qualityless , characterless nature of the money form became a recurring motif in the ...
... metaphors and tropes no longer seemed capable of expressing the labile qualities of money or the social relations that money mediated . The formless , qualityless , characterless nature of the money form became a recurring motif in the ...
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... metaphor " for the mo- bile and polymorphous features of the market . " But it did not merely represent those features ; at its most venturesome , it the- matized representation and misrepresentation as the pivotal prob- lems of its ...
... metaphor " for the mo- bile and polymorphous features of the market . " But it did not merely represent those features ; at its most venturesome , it the- matized representation and misrepresentation as the pivotal prob- lems of its ...
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... metaphors left to us from antiquity : the metaphor of the world as a stage . In the fifteen hundred years between its formulation by the Greeks and its revival by Ren- aissance Neoplatonists , the meaning of the figure or " topic " of ...
... metaphors left to us from antiquity : the metaphor of the world as a stage . In the fifteen hundred years between its formulation by the Greeks and its revival by Ren- aissance Neoplatonists , the meaning of the figure or " topic " of ...
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... metaphor acquired a hard edge it had not displayed before , a more fully developed sense of the futility and fatedness of things . And this sentiment , in turn , entered into the admonitory tradition of the Christian writers . Saint ...
... metaphor acquired a hard edge it had not displayed before , a more fully developed sense of the futility and fatedness of things . And this sentiment , in turn , entered into the admonitory tradition of the Christian writers . Saint ...
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... metaphor that had for so long served churchmen to wean the faithful from their attach- ments to the secular world became over time a symbolic represen- tation of attachments and moorings already lost , and lost not through some ...
... metaphor that had for so long served churchmen to wean the faithful from their attach- ments to the secular world became over time a symbolic represen- tation of attachments and moorings already lost , and lost not through some ...
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Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750 Jean-Christophe Agnew No preview available - 1986 |
Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750 Jean-Christophe Agnew No preview available - 2009 |
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