Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern CulturePeter G. Platt University of Delaware Press, 1999 - 341 sider The essays in this collection reveal a variety of discursive practices of the marvelous: art theory, natural history, travel literature, religious polemics, literary flyting, proto-medical narratives, wonder books, political theory, personal essays, drama, theology, jermiad verse, philosophy, and "metaphysical" poetry. They also establish the variety of uses to which the marvelous could be summoned. One fundamental fissure seems to run throughout the period's depiction of the wonderful that paradoxically helps unify our understanding of the concept: there existed a marvelous that ultimately had to be contained and a marvelous that inevitably liberated--often within the same text. If the urge to control the marvelous is great--if the supernatural is always threatened with naturalization--it is the power of the marvelous that necessitates such a response. For the marvelous and the monstrous are almost always in danger of eluding mastery and classification. Yet it is this very intractability that can force of facilitate a recharting--of the map of artistic possibility, of the body, of the known world, of human potential. In the spirit of this figure that ever seeks to unsettle, this volume continues the ongoing reconfiguration of our view of wonder, the marvelous, and the monstrous in the early modern period. --From publisher's description. |
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Side 16
... natural , " the divine , great utility , the very exact , the unexpected , and the sudden . Wonder , then , could be ... nature's marvels . " Mirollo goes on to examine the classical tradition of the marvelous as well as the role of ...
... natural , " the divine , great utility , the very exact , the unexpected , and the sudden . Wonder , then , could be ... nature's marvels . " Mirollo goes on to examine the classical tradition of the marvelous as well as the role of ...
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... nature . " The maker understood how the marvelous effect came about ; the maker ' made us see ' what we see . In the case of natural things , it is a personified Nature who has made us see . " In fact , Summers argues , " if the archaic ...
... nature . " The maker understood how the marvelous effect came about ; the maker ' made us see ' what we see . In the case of natural things , it is a personified Nature who has made us see . " In fact , Summers argues , " if the archaic ...
Side 19
... natural body was in fact constantly being transformed into the mon- strous body in a near - universal rebellion against the authority of nature " ; ultimately " Bulwer could not offer a way out of this universal monstrosity . " The ...
... natural body was in fact constantly being transformed into the mon- strous body in a near - universal rebellion against the authority of nature " ; ultimately " Bulwer could not offer a way out of this universal monstrosity . " The ...
Side 25
... nature's crea- tures , elements , and forces , as catalogued and described by a natural history that accepted pure fantasy along with more - or - less accurate depictions , was immensely appealing . The collection of Histoires ...
... nature's crea- tures , elements , and forces , as catalogued and described by a natural history that accepted pure fantasy along with more - or - less accurate depictions , was immensely appealing . The collection of Histoires ...
Side 27
... nature and the most marvelous examples , especially as regards the subject of the actions of men . " taigne's elevation of the mundane to the marvelous is wholly secular , typical of his habit of drawing attention to a benign nature's ...
... nature and the most marvelous examples , especially as regards the subject of the actions of men . " taigne's elevation of the mundane to the marvelous is wholly secular , typical of his habit of drawing attention to a benign nature's ...
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On Wonder Imitation and Mechanism | 45 |
Marvelous Facts and Miraculous Evidence in Early Modern | 76 |
Introduction to Marvelous Possessions | 105 |
Rabelaisian NonWonders and Renaissance Polemics | 133 |
Early Modern Scientific Accounts | 145 |
John Bulwer and | 187 |
The Limits | 205 |
Macbeth and the Marvelous | 229 |
The Politics of Jeremiad | 251 |
Beyond the Renaissance Reconfiguring | 269 |
Wit the Sublime and the Rise | 294 |
List of Contributors | 328 |
Who Says Miracles Are Past? Some Jacobean Marvels | 164 |
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Side 237 - The Prince of Cumberland!—That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. [Exit. (1.4.48-53)
Side 230 - Siward. What wood is this before us? Menteith. The wood of Birnam. Malcolm. Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host, and make discovery Err in report of us. Soldier. It shall be done.
Side 313 - lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy.
Side 275 - I think I envy liberty as little as they do, to any other nation. But I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction
Side 276 - by the spirit of philosophic analogy. In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties
Side 310 - analytick," they "broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities, the prospects of nature or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sun-beam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon
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