Subject and Object in Renaissance CultureMargreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations. |
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... category mistake of the highest order . Might the problem lie in the artificiality of the categories themselves ? - that is , in their enforced opposition as binaries ? Another look at Marx suggests the interdependency of Introduction 3.
... category mistake of the highest order . Might the problem lie in the artificiality of the categories themselves ? - that is , in their enforced opposition as binaries ? Another look at Marx suggests the interdependency of Introduction 3.
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... suggests the interdependency of the two . For it is not only the subject that is lost in commodification : the object too is lost . In the process of converting it to purely quantitative exchange value , commodification depletes the ...
... suggests the interdependency of the two . For it is not only the subject that is lost in commodification : the object too is lost . In the process of converting it to purely quantitative exchange value , commodification depletes the ...
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... suggests a more dynamic status for the object . Reading " ob " as " before " allows us to assign the object a prior status , suggesting its temporal , spatial , and even causal coming before . The word could thus be made to designate ...
... suggests a more dynamic status for the object . Reading " ob " as " before " allows us to assign the object a prior status , suggesting its temporal , spatial , and even causal coming before . The word could thus be made to designate ...
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... suggests not only that artifacts precede artifice ( the crafting of objects precedes the fashioning of tropes , scenes , and parts ) , but that " joinery " is part and parcel of other structures - social and political as well as ...
... suggests not only that artifacts precede artifice ( the crafting of objects precedes the fashioning of tropes , scenes , and parts ) , but that " joinery " is part and parcel of other structures - social and political as well as ...
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... suggest that the fetish in Early Modern Europe may be different from that of a later anthropology , different too from its transposition into the marketplace via Marx's fetishism of commodities.20 In each of the essays in Fetishisms ...
... suggest that the fetish in Early Modern Europe may be different from that of a later anthropology , different too from its transposition into the marketplace via Marx's fetishism of commodities.20 In each of the essays in Fetishisms ...
Contents
The ideology of superfluous things King Lear as period piece | 17 |
Rude mechanicals | 43 |
Spensers domestic domain poetry property and the Early Modern subject | 83 |
Materializations | 131 |
Gendering the Crown | 133 |
The unauthored 1539 volume in which is printed the Hecatomphile The Flowers of French Poetry and Other Soothing Things | 166 |
Dematerializations textile and textual properties in Ovid Sandys and Spenser | 189 |
Appropriations | 211 |
Unlearning the Aztec cantares preliminaries to a postcolonial history | 260 |
Fetishisms | 287 |
Worn worlds clothes and identity on the Renaissance stage | 289 |
The Countess of Pembrokes literal translation | 321 |
Remnants of the sacred in Early Modern England | 337 |
Objections | 347 |
The insincerity of women | 349 |
Desire is death | 369 |
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Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture Margreta de Grazia,Maureen Quilligan,Peter Stallybrass No preview available - 1996 |
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