Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 284
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317081227
ISBN-13 : 1317081226
Rating : 4/5 (226 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism by : Robert E. Stillman

Download or read book Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism written by Robert E. Stillman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Robert E. Stillman explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, the first Renaissance text to argue for the preeminence of poetry as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain. Offering a fresh interpretation of Sidney's celebration of fiction-making, Stillman locates the origins of his poetics inside a neglected historical community: the intellectual elite associated with Philip Melanchthon (leader of the German Reformation after Luther), the so-called Philippists. As a challenge to traditional Anglo-centric scholarship, his study demonstrates how Sidney's education by Continental Philippists enabled him to dignify fiction-making as a compelling form of public discourse-compelling because of its promotion of powerful new concepts about reading and writing, its ecumenical piety, and its political ambition to secure through natural law (from universal 'Ideas') freedom from the tyranny of confessional warfare. Intellectually ambitious and wide-ranging, this study draws together various elements of contemporary scholarship in literary, religious, and political history in order to afford a broader understanding of the Defence and the cultural context inside which Sidney produced both his poetry and his poetics.


Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism Related Books

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Robert E. Stillman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-22 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills o
Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Robert E. Stillman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-22 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills o
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 3618
Authors: Marco Sgarbi
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-27 - Publisher: Springer Nature

GET EBOOK

Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and t
Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans
Language: en
Pages: 463
Authors: Brian C. Lockey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-09 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective of 16th-century English Catholic exiles and 17th-century English
Unwritten Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Scott A. Trudell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Vocal music was at the heart of English Renaissance poetry and drama. Virtuosic actor-singers redefined the theatrical culture of William Shakespeare and his pe