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 15
... tradition of the marvelous ex- isted in the Renaissance — one that runs counter to the predominant Aristo- telian view . Instead of emphasizing the containment of wonder , this other approach focuses on the power of wonder as an ...
... tradition of the marvelous ex- isted in the Renaissance — one that runs counter to the predominant Aristo- telian view . Instead of emphasizing the containment of wonder , this other approach focuses on the power of wonder as an ...
Side 16
... tradition of the marvelous as well as the role of wonder in both literary and art criticism . Pointing to the waning of the marvelous in the eighteenth century , he reminds us that " the idea of the Sublime ... proves that the marvelous ...
... tradition of the marvelous as well as the role of wonder in both literary and art criticism . Pointing to the waning of the marvelous in the eighteenth century , he reminds us that " the idea of the Sublime ... proves that the marvelous ...
Side 17
... tradition as old as the Homeric shield of Achilles " —a convention in which illusionism was " tightly bound not just to the long tradition of poetry but to the long tradition of mechanics , thus to the beginnings of the rise of ...
... tradition as old as the Homeric shield of Achilles " —a convention in which illusionism was " tightly bound not just to the long tradition of poetry but to the long tradition of mechanics , thus to the beginnings of the rise of ...
Side 22
... Tradition and Poetic Structure ( Denver : Swallow , 1960 ) , 224 . 5. Peter G. Piatt , Reason Diminished : Shakespeare and the Marvelous ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1997 ) . 6. Pioneering work on wonders , marvels , and ...
... Tradition and Poetic Structure ( Denver : Swallow , 1960 ) , 224 . 5. Peter G. Piatt , Reason Diminished : Shakespeare and the Marvelous ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1997 ) . 6. Pioneering work on wonders , marvels , and ...
Side 25
... tradition , going back to classical antiquity , that noted , cata- logued , and speculated upon marvels . Hence a history of the idea of the marvelous must be taken into account along with the surviving artistic and material records of ...
... tradition , going back to classical antiquity , that noted , cata- logued , and speculated upon marvels . Hence a history of the idea of the marvelous must be taken into account along with the surviving artistic and material records of ...
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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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